Issue Oct 21-27 2026: The Trump administration has announced that several areas of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras are less violent than many U.S. cities, putting the status of asylum seekers from such areas into doubt. Internal U.S.-government reports, which are used to assess such asylum claims, are making it more difficult for such status to
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Issue Oct 21-27 2026: César Gustavo Jáuregui Moreno, a former prosecutor for the state of Chihuahua accused of permitting the presence of U.S. security agents in Mexico, was arrested on October 17, 2026, by local police.
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Issue Oct 21-27 2026: Without conducting any investigation, the media reported that the senator was already in the United States, when, in fact, he had not yet even left Argentina. In doing so, journalism served as a megaphone for Bolsonarista narratives.
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Issue Oct 14-20, 2026: The surprisingly large amount of fuel being sent by the United States to Cuba turns out to be unreal. Last Thursday, the US-Cuba Economic and Trade Council published a brief note reporting “corrections on certain products in response to research carried out by the data user community.” The data reveals that,
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Issue Oct 14-20, 2026: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s position toward the Trump administration appears to have shifted in recent days from close alignment to marked autonomy.
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Issue Oct 14-20, 2026: An oil agreement championed by U.S. President Donald Trump in Venezuela protects the interests of private business owners, yet it fails to explicitly mandate the payment of the $200 billion in taxes and royalties that the White House has touted as benefits for the South American nation, according to an investigation
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Issue Oct 07-13 2026: As protesters gather around Argentina’s Congress to protest the government’s refusal to enforce the country’s University Financing Law, President Javier Milei is preparing for his upcoming visit to the United States, a trip that promises to be a pleasure, given that he is to be awarded the so-called “Global Champion of
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Issue Oct 07-13 2026: “There are no property rights for Nicaraguans or foreigners in Nicaragua:” the confiscation of property from nine U.S. retirees puts the dictatorship in the crosshairs of the U.S. State Department.
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Former Environment Minister Marina Silva expressed concern regarding the composition of the National Congress elected in 2026 and warned of the possibility of further setbacks in Brazilian environmental legislation.
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Issue Sep 30-Oct 06 2026: The United States General Attorney’s Office has requested that Judge Allen K. Hellerstein reject former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s claim that, as head-of-state, he enjoys immunity from criminal prosecution in New York, adding that Venezuelan officials have never requested such immunity for either Maduro or his wife, Cilia Flores.
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