Issue Apr 17-23 2024: In Nueva Oceanía, a community in the Peruvian Amazon, sightings of the Mashco Piro, an Indigenous group in isolation, have increased due to nearby forestry concessions.

Issue Apr 17-23 2024: The Panamanian prosecutor’s office requested 12 years in prison, the maximum penalty for money laundering, for Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonesca, founders of the defunct law firm at the center of the international “Panama Papers” scandal.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: The politics of sound have been brought into question with the rise of two viral videos: one of an American model complaining about Mexico City’s organ grinders, the other of a guitarist in Mazatlán being interrupted by another band.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: While an analysis performed by the Colombian National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) indicates that incidents of child labor have decreased over the past few months, it remains a problem affecting a large number of children and adolescents throughout the country.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: University students protest across Paraguay because they want Arancel Cero to continue.

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.