Issue Sep 17-23 2025: Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in Lima to protest a reform to the rules governing pension funds in the country. Protesters claim that the reform—which was published on September 5— favors Pension Funds Administrators (AFP) over their members.

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: The National University of Colombia (UNAL) has long symbolized upward social mobility for thousands of Colombians, providing access to higher education based on merit rather than inherited wealth and privilege. Currently, however, the institution is facing a crisis in governance that pits the institution’s autonomy against politics, threatening its very essence.

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: The Government of Paraguay reported to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) progress in complying with five rulings against the State, including those related to Indigenous peoples’ access to ancestral lands and the 1991 murder of journalist Santiago Leguizamón.

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: A Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) survey, conducted in 2023, reveals that the majority of the Salvadoran population spends between one and five hours of their time collecting water for domestic use.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Residents of the Luz María and Lucerna del Mar sectors of the Dominican Republic’s capital, Santo Domingo, are demanding that the government address the problems plaguing their neighborhoods, including pothole-ridden streets, blackouts that can sometimes last for hours, a lack of rain gutters, and precarious access to potable water.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has declared a state of exception in seven provinces due to “serious internal disturbances,” as roads are blocked across the country to protest the elimination of a state subsidy on diesel fuel. The state of exception is scheduled to last 60 days and specifically affects the provinces

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Rapid progress on the Bogotá metro and the arrival of its first trains have created great expectations among citizens of the Colombia capital, who have praised the speed and efficiency of its construction and expect that it will help alleviate the city’s notorious traffic congestion.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Many Mexican folk remedies solve problems with “the purest Mexican style,” according to popular belief.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: Scheduled for April 27, 2025, the canonization of Carlo Acutis, an Italian programmer and student known for documenting Eucharistic miracles before his untimely death at 15 years of age in 2006, had to be postponed because of the passing of Pope Francis six days earlier.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: Every year on September 7, Cuba celebrates one of its most important religious festivals: the commemoration of the Virgen de la Regla, patron saint of Havana Bay, who is venerated in her sanctuary in the town of Regla.