Issue May 24-30 2023: The president of Brazil, leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, reported in late May that King Carlos III personally requested that he “take care of the Amazon.”

Issue May 17-23 2023: On May 23, the Spanish government nationalized an additional fourteen Nicaraguans who had been stripped of their citizenship and exiled by President Daniel Ortega.

Issue May 17-23 2023: The Cuban think tank appeals to the Cuban diaspora to become conscious of their power to spur change in the island.

Issue May 17-23 2023: The European Union approved a regulation in April that will seek to guarantee that products imported from the Amazon region do not come from deforested areas.

Issue May 10-16 2023: The number of Brazilians who have presented declarations of indefinite departure from the country has increased every year since 2010, according to data from the Receita Federal.

Issue May 10-16 2023: On May 16, 2023, The Council of Ministers in Spain proposed a grant for up to 50 million dollars (about 46 million euros) to the Dominican Republic to create a universal sanitation program for the country’s most vulnerable tourist and coastal towns.

Issue Apr 26-May 09 2023: EU criticisms of Mexico’s new energy policy, far from being good faith attempts to foster economic integration and impede environmental degradation, are instead merely another familiar manifestation of the spirit of European colonialism.

Issue Apr 26-May 09 2023: Airbus executive Guillaume Gressin pointed out in an interview that aviation in general has made a comeback after the economic paralysis caused by the pandemic.

Issue Apr 26-May 09 2023: The United Nation’s Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights outlined concerns about the lack of an independent judicial system and about the freedom of human rights defenders in El Salvador, outlining hardline policies and reforms that threaten liberty in the country.

Issue Apr 19-25 2023: The European Parliament has approved, by a “wide majority,” a law that will end imports of products such as cacao, coffee, wood, and rubber that have been harvested from deforested areas after December 31, 2020.