Issue Mar 13-19 2024: As part of the “Auf dem Rücken der Kamele” (On the Backs of Camels) special exhibition at the Weltmuseum Wien ethnographic museum in Vienna, Austria, Bolivian Vice President David Choquehuanca spoke about the importance of camelids to ecosystems in South America and other parts of the world.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: The U.S. State Department has modified the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to include restrictions on defense imports and exports to Nicaragua.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: In Brazil, xenophobia against Northeasterners is a common occurrence propagated and enabled by a media culture stuck in the past, reliant on stereotypes and long-tired tropes portraying them as illiterate, dyslexic, starving, flour-stealing, lizard-eating, Corinthians-supporting mendicants.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: In Brazil, the Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI) and the Confederação Nacional do Comércio de Bens, Serviços e Turismo (CNC) will present the Supreme Federal Court (STF) with a challenge to the gender-based equal pay law.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: In the first reunion with his governmental ministers of 2024, Brazilian president Lula da Silva stated that there was no longer any doubt that the country suffered an attempted coup d’etat planned by Jair Bolsonaro and his allies.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: Carlos Martínez was only a child of 13 years when his father took him to attend celebration of the historic peace accords between the FMLN and the Salvadoran government.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: Public trust of Chilean institutions is at an all-time low, with the military and police being seen as more trustworthy than Congress, political parties, and the much diminished Catholic Church.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: In a speech given to commemorate the 86th anniversary of the oil expropriation, President López Obrador denounced those who advocate for the dismantling of the national energy industry to favor private interests.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: The creation of Uruguay’s heritage weekend was a success and is proof that citizens like the material goods of the nation’s past.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: Amnesty International defined the first 100 days of President Javier Milei’s government as a time of digital violence, the loss of purchasing power for retirees, and the repression of social conflict.