Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: President Gustavo Petro of Colombia recently instructed his officials to commence implementing the preventive framework of his healthcare reform, urging them to demonstrate its benefits and address concerns about highlighted inequities.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: The Maká Indigenous community will march on February 28 at 7:00 am in Asunción, Paraguay, to protest the construction of the Héroes del Chaco Bridge into their territory.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: Último Primer Día (UPD), or the Last First Day of school, is a celebration that takes place the night before the last year of high school starts, and it is a night in which students consume alcohol.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: Uruguayan Minister of Social Development (MIDES) Martín Lema once again denied responsibility for the homelessness crisis plaguing Montevideo, instead placing the blame on the capital’s Intendent, Carolina Cosse.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: On the heels of the recently celebrated World Day of Environmental Education, a large percentage of Chilean children are losing opportunities to learn in nature.

Issue Feb 14-20 2024: The samba school Unidos da Viradouro won first place for the third time at Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro 2024, a year which marks the Marquês de Sapucaí Sambadrome’s 40th anniversary.

Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Claudia Barcia, who has been serving as a Buenos Aires district attorney specializing in gender violence, has just been named as the new Under Secretary of Protection Against Gender Violence.

Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Farmers affiliated with the Federación Nacional Campesina in Paraguay are organizing protests to address the government’s abandonment of small-scale agricultural producers amid challenges caused by climate change.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: In Villa Silípica, Argentina, thousands of people gathered for the canonization of María Antonia de San José de Paz y Figueroa, hailed as the first Argentine saint.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: In a significant setback for Indigenous rights, on December 14th, 2023, the Brazilian congress overturned President Lula’s veto of several core elements of Bill 2,903/2023 which would have limited Indigenous land claims only to territories occupied during the adoption of the 1988 Constitution.