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.

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: The Association announced the closure of its operations due to a context of “worsening criminalization and persecution of human rights defenders,” including the arrest of José Ángel Pérez, president of the Cooperativa El Bosque, and Alejandro Henríquez, lawyer and member of the Foro del Agua.

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: The number of households with people experiencing some degree of food insecurity fell to 18.9 million, a decrease of 2.2 million households living with hunger between 2023 and 2024.

Issue Sep 24-30 2025: Therapeutic abortion, a medical procedure that is permitted when the health or life of a pregnant woman is at risk, has been legal in Peru for over a century. However, statistics show that undue criminalization of abortion has doubled in Peru in the past six years.

Issue Sep 24-30 2025: Bolivia enacted a law expressly prohibiting marriage and civil unions of minors under the age of 18 in Bolivia.