Issue Apr 10-16 2024: Argentina’s Ministry of Education decided to terminate the “Books for Learning” program, which supplied over 14 million books to schools nationwide.

Issue Apr 03-09 2024: Argentina’s state universities received the same budgets in 2024 as they did in 2023, despite inflation of 270% over the past year. As a result, school funding is only expected to last until May or June.

Issue Apr 03-09 2024: On April 8th, parents of students from the C595 Jornada Matutina Urban Mixed Official School in Villa Lobos, Villa Nueva, urged the Ministry of Education (Mineduc) to appoint teachers for the 4th and 5th-grade students.

Issue Apr 03-09 2024: In Luyanó, Havana, frustration over accumulating waste led a resident to block Reforma Street with debris, symbolizing the widespread discontent with the city’s garbage collection system.

Issue Apr 03-09 2024: President of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH) Hugo Maldonado has proposed that the government create health clinics in underserved areas to provide medical care to patients with kidney disease.

Issue Mar 27-Apr 02 2024: Costa Rican micro farmers are threatened by unfavorable agricultural conditions; 16% of microenterprises that ceased to operate in the country between 2021 and 2023 belonged to the agriculture sector.

Issue Mar 27-Apr 02 2024: In a recent development, the Provincial Court of Camagüey denied the appeal filed on behalf of activist Aniette González, who was sentenced to three years in prison last February for posing wrapped in a Cuban flag.

Issue Mar 27-Apr 02 2024: The most important part of the 2019 education reform in Mexico was the creation of the Sistema Nacional de Mejora Continua de la Educación and its commission (Mejoredu) to replace the Instituto Nacional para la Evaluación de la Educación (INEE).

Issue Mar 27-Apr 02 2024: The Full Constitutional Court of Chile has resolved to reject the unconstitutionality claim filed by a group of opposition deputies regarding “non-sexist education,” integrated into Article 12 of the Comprehensive Law against violence against women.

Issue Mar 20-26 2024: Law 2292 of 2023 allows female prisoners who are the head of a family to work on public projects rather than go to prison.