Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: Maria Corina Machado, the presidential candidate of the Venezuelan opposition party Plataforma Unitaria, says that the Maduro administration “intends to be ignorant of” the guarantees established by the Consejo Nacional Electoral for the presidential elections in July.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: On March 1, 2024, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) held its eighth presidential summit in the Caribbean archipelago of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The event was marked by the high-profile participation of some, but not all, left-wing leaders and the complete absence of right-leaning ones.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: “We live in an era where everyone claims to be democratic,” and while “we in Guatemala have also opted for a state whose laws are democratic… we are not.”

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: As election season in the United States coalesces around two high profile candidates, attacks on immigrants have taken on a renewed vigor.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: The mind is an extension of the stomach, a lesson familiar to the Brazilian poor in the second half of the 20th century, whose childhood experiences of chronic hunger left marks visible on both body and soul.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: At a time when Cuba is facing a severe economic crisis, Western Union has ceased its remittance transfer service to the island due to “technical difficulties,” with the service not expected to come back online until at least the 1st of April.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: The two frontrunners in Mexico’s 2024 campaign are women, giving rise to the prospect of a female president in the historically machista country.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: A study commissioned by UN Women found that nearly half of Uruguayans are in favor of establishing a ‘parity law’ that would require a 50/50 split of men and women in political positions.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: On the eve of International Women’s Day on March 8, the women of Panama call for a state that represents them.

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.