Issue Feb 21-27 2024: During President Bernardo Arévalo’s participation in the first meeting of the National Food and Nutrition Security Council (Conasan), he asserted that it’s unacceptable that 50% of children under five years old in the country suffer from malnutrition.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: Despite its longstanding reputation for political stability, high living standards, and an advanced social benefits system that set it apart from its Central American neighbors, Costa Rica’s deepening security crisis, spurred by drug trafficking, has struck fear into many of its citizens, who are now afraid that they might “lose their

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: At a “Breakfast for Unity” the Chilean political parties Revolución Democrática and Convergencia Social gave the official go-ahead for the referendum process by which the Frente Amplio will be unified.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: The Permanent Assembly of the Peruvian Congress will debate and vote on whether to remove all active members of the National Judiciary Council (JNJ) from their posts.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: Leonel Fernández, former president of the Dominican Republic and president of the Fuerza del Pueblo (FP) political party, said, “We have formalized a large opposition coalition to face the congressional elections next May with Rescate RD.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: From intimidation to paralysis, Argentina’s prognosis is worsening under President Javier Milei’s rule.

Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Participating in the 2024 Munich Security Conference, Colombian President Gustavo Petro spoke at length about the climate crisis, emphasizing that the international community should focus on life over war.

Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Javier Milei’s “political caste” rhetoric – which decries economic and political “privileges” afforded to specific segments of society through state “collectivism” – is as ephemeral as it is incoherent.

Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Despite the hardships that Fuerza Popular President Keiko Fujimori has faced during the past two years, including her divorce from husband Mark Villanella in June 2022 and her younger brother Kenji Fujimori’s recent conviction for attempting to buy congressional votes in 2018, the worst may be yet to come.

Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz has registered with the National Electoral Institute (INE) as the presidential candidate for the PAN-PRI-PRD coalition Fuerza y Corazón por México.