Issue Feb 01-07 2023: Iran and Nicaragua will seek to expand bipartisan cooperation in different areas, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amir Abdolahian.

Transparency International released its Corruption Perception Index for the year 2022, according to which Venezuela is the most corrupt country in Latin America.

Issue Jan 25-31 2023: As the international order becomes ever more “multipolar and volatile,” global changes such as climate change, peace, and migration, “demand more political attention and better capacity for action.”

Issue Jan 25-31 2023: The Citizen Participation Directive of the Dominican Republic indicated that the country scored 32 points out of 100 in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) that was elaborated by the International Transparency movement in Berlin, Germany in 2022.

Issue Jan 18-24 2023: Xi Jinping, President of China, has reaffirmed his plans to strengthen China’s relationship with Latin America. Xi named the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Sates (CELAC) as an “important partner […] in consolidating South-South co-operation.”

Issue Jan 18-24 2023: Argentinian Secretary of Human Rights Horacio Pietragalla denounced the judicial persecution against politicians and warned the United Nations of the discursive violence in Argentina.

Issue Jan 18-24 2023: The World Economic Forum (WEF)—in which recently Latin American presence has increased— had a record of 137 participants from the region.

Issue Jan 11-17 2023: Ruslán Spirin, Ukrainian special ambassador for Latin America and the Caribbean, has stated that “many countries in the region are waiting to see who starts to win to take a strong position.” Spirin criticized this as a “mistake.”

Issue Jan 11-17 2023: For those wondering where their steak came from, Argentina may have solved the puzzle of sourcing in the ever-growing food supply chain.

Issue Jan 11-17 2023: A lawsuit in Britain has created abrupt economic chaos in Cuba as CRF I Limited took legal action against the Cuban National Bank because of debts owed for 25 years.