Issue Feb 07-13 2024: The 37th Cerapió/Piocerá Rally took place between the 24th and 27th of January, blazing a trail from Praia do Cumbuco to Teresina in Brazil’s most traditional off-road event.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Survivor of Flight 571 Antonio “Tin Tin” Vizintín issued a public statement criticizing that neither he nor any of the other survivors of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains were invited to the recent Goya Awards, which took place on the 10th of February.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: The AMLO administration has presented to the Mexican congress proposed constitutional changes to ban genetically modified (GM) corn, open air mining, and fracking, in addition to creating water access guarantees.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Russian journalist Alexey Egorov published the second half of his two-part documentary on the Cuban military.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador received United States Homeland Security Advisor to the White House Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall in the National Palace, where he pledged his administration’s commitment to work with the United States on regional migration issues.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Brazil’s right-wing has become enamored with the dictatorial government of recently (and unconstitutionally) re-elected Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.

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.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Brazilian minister Benjamin Zymler of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) has demanded that Petrobras and the Ministry of Mines and Energy provide information regarding possible irregularities in a 759 million-real contract with Unigel.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: On the eve of ex-president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández’s U.S. trial for drug trafficking, current President of Honduras Xiomara Castro issued a statement affirming that she is dedicated to transforming the “narco-dictatorship” she inherited from her predecessor.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Chilean head of state Gabriel Boric issued a “mea culpa” to Sebastián Piñera at the recently deceased ex-president’s state funeral.