Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Katia Silene Tonkyre, the first female cacique of the Akratikatejé village, located in the Brazilian state of Pará, will receive the “Soul of Rurality” award for her conservation work in the world’s largest tropical forest: the Amazon.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: U.S. National Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas held a virtual reunion on January 30th with new Guatemalan Minister of the Interior Francisco Jiménez.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Brazil and Bolivia will sign a memorandum of understanding to collectively increase fertilizer production.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Venezuela has been ranked the most corrupt country in Latin America according to the 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) issued by Transparency International.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Brazilian businesses have kicked off 2024 with an optimistic outlook, according to a survey by the Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI) released on January 24th.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: In Nueva Prosperina, a peripheral district in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, gangs have taken advantage of the area’s isolation to seize properties from terrified residents and turn them into bases of operation for their illegal activities.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Five years after their visit to Nicaragua in 2018 as part of an OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, human rights lawyers Paulo Abrao and Antonia Urrejola commented on the country’s increasing despotism under the Ortega regime.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: After intense negotiations, the Chilean congress has decided to move forward with pension reform, marking a welcome victory for the Boric administration, particularly after the rejection of its tax reform program in March 2023.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: A group of multilateral organizations plans to unite to promote education in Panama, citing the fact that almost seven out of every ten children cannot read a simple text at the end of elementary school.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Costa Rica’s employability rate ranks the country as second lowest on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OCDE) global index.