Issue Jun 10-16 2026: Mexico’s National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) once again blocked Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma from Avenida Juárez to the Angel of Independence and threatened to relocate its street protest from the historic center to Reforma if the federal government does not return to the negotiating table.

Issue Jun 10-16 2026: Colombia’s Ministry of Defense has reported that eight-thousand families in the department of Putamayo are willing to replace coca leaf cultivation with such legal crops as cocoa, coffee, chilies, and bananas, generating opportunities for income, stability, and well-being.

Issue Jun 10-16 2026: Chile has passed new legislation in the form of the Comprehensive Law of the Elderly and the Promotion of Decent, Active, and Healthy Aging, which not only updates the legal framework involving the country’s senior citizens, but also seeks to foster cultural change by encouraging people to stop regarding the elderly

Issue Jun 10-16 2026: Across Brazil, a wave of urban redevelopment, rising real estate prices, and housing speculation is transforming city centers while displacing low-income residents to increasingly distant, surrounding neighborhoods.