Issue Oct 15-21 2025: World Menopause Day, observed on October 18, seeks to break the stigma surrounding this stage of women’s lives.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: Coffee is Honduras’s main export, and women are a large part of the coffee production industry. However, they are not taken into account by the International Coffee Council (ICO) and they are seeking to change that fact.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: Her dreams brought Leidivania from Maranhão to São Paulo, but her expulsion from the favela made her days a nightmare.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: The Milpillas Dam in Zacatecas demonstrates the imposition of an unviable megaproject that would benefit large corporations while shifting the water crisis to rural communities.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: According to Marina Kriscautzky Laxague, director of Technological Innovation at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM), undergraduates at her institution suffer from a “very serious addiction to technology” while their ability to process and edit data, texts, spreadsheets, audio, video, and images are lacking and even worse than when they did not

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: A new language school called the “Héroe Brian Wilson” National Language Academy has been installed in property confiscated by the government from the Order of Franciscan Friars Minor in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. The school was inaugurated by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship on October 17.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: On Bolivian Women’s Day and in the context of an electoral campaign, the Observatorio de Género of the Coordinadora de la Mujer warned that, without a real commitment to dismantling patriarchy, “gender-parity democracy will be just a mirage.”

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: A report published by the Instituto de Ciencia Política Hernán Echavarría Olózaga (ICP), the ProBogotá Región, and the Fundación para el Estado de Derecho indicates that Protection Areas for Food Production, along with other legal instruments created by the national government, represent a serious threat to territorial autonomy, legal security, and

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: Guatemala’s Supreme Court has annulled the conviction of well-known journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín for money laundering, a conviction that was subsequently upheld in appeals court. Although he has been exonerated of the charge, Zamora Marroquín will remain in prison pending the outcome of two further trials.

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: The Colombian city of Tunja reported four confirmed cases of suicide in the month of May alone—this in a city of 187,000, leading analysts to speculate about the reasons for what is unquestionably a glaring statistical anomaly.