Issue Oct 09-15 2024: The massive influx of migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border has dramatically diminished, largely due to joint efforts by the U.S. and Mexican administrations.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their research that highlights the crucial role of institutions in a country’s prosperity.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Representatives of the Venezuelan opposition presented compelling evidence before the Organization of American States (OAS) to assert that Edmundo González, the opposition candidate, was the rightful winner of the presidential elections held on July 28, 2024.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Once synonymous with forced labor, secret burials, and rampant deforestation, the Cabaceiras farm in Marabá, in the Brazilian state of Pará, has transformed into a symbol of sustainable farming through agrarian reform.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Guatemala is making strides toward regulating electronic currency, aiming to modernize its financial systems.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Honduran President Xiomara Castro declared that Honduras “should not continue being used as a bridge for drug trafficking to developed countries,” stressing the need for political alternation and transparent elections in 2025.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Since the 2016 impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s left has faced ongoing defeats, as evidenced by the results of the most recent municipal elections.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Maite Alberdi’s first fiction film, El lugar de la otra, is an adaptation of one of the stories told in Alia Trabucco’s book Las homicidas. Produced by Fábula and Netflix, the film recounts the mysterious 1955 murder of Roberto Pumarino by his lover, the writer María Carolina Geel.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega ordered his country’s Ministry of Foreign Relations to end diplomatic relations with the Government of Israel, as requested by the country’s Asamblea Nacional.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Several of Colombia’s biogeographic regions house an immense wealth of biodiversity which could form the basis on which to develop a national pharmaceutical industry that is aligned with certain strategic projections.