Issue Oct 23-29 2024: Despite Nicaragua and Venezuela’s ambitions to join the new BRICS-associated 13-nations group, both countries have failed to qualify following tensions with Brazil.

Issue Oct 23-29 2024: BRICS is a group of emerging countries formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, created to foster cooperation in areas of trade, finance, politics, and sustainable development.

Issue Oct 23-29 2024: As explained by the European Parliament, the six-member delegation led by Austrian MEP Lukas Mandl, of the European People’s Party (EPP), will visit Guatemala from October 28 to 30.

Issue Oct 16-22 2024: Nicaragua is $943 million in debt to Chinese companies with terms of high interest rates and low grace periods. In 2025, the country’s external debt will exceed $10.5 billion with debt service over $1 billion.

Issue Oct 16-22 2024: The BRICS nations are exploring alternatives to the U.S. dollar and Western payment systems, aiming to reform a global financial order increasingly seen as unstable and weaponized for geopolitical sanctions.

Issue Oct 16-22 2024: Several projects between Taiwan and Guatemala have led to solid collaboration for over 90 years.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their research that highlights the crucial role of institutions in a country’s prosperity.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega ordered his country’s Ministry of Foreign Relations to end diplomatic relations with the Government of Israel, as requested by the country’s Asamblea Nacional.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: The United Nations Independent International Mission for Venezuela released a 158-page report on October 15th, documenting extensive human rights violations by Nicolás Maduro’s government before, during, and after the July 28, 2024, presidential elections.

Issue Oct 02-08 2024: At this year’s UN General Assembly, the reading of the presidential speeches, or those of their foreign ministers, “showed the impossibility of finding a common thread, a structured account of the whole of Latin America.”