Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: A recent 37-year study tracked changes in the composition of 173 rivers worldwide due to mining, with seven of them located in the Madre de Dios region of the Amazon in Peru.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: In the past year, the poverty rate in Cuba has surged by 11%, reaching a startling 88%.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: The beaches of Costa Rica have been described as some of the country’s most “natural gems.”

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: The film “The Snow Society” won the audience award at the San Sebastián film festival, which was the only award for which the film was nominated.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: The combination of inflation of agricultural inputs, lack of rain, labor shortage, low international prices of some items, and pests has forced Nicaraguan agricultural producers to reduce the size of cultivation and grazing areas.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: The migration phenomenon from South to North America has reportedly reached one of its most notable periods to date, with a daily average of over 10,000 people crossing the border irregularly.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: The sixth edition of the Muestra Internacional de Cine Rescatado y Restaurado Arcadia de la Filmoteca UNAM kicked off on the 29th of September with the screening of films offering depictions of the Chilean coup d’état.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: While a far cry from the actively ecocidal Bolsonaro administration, Lula’s nine-month-old government has failed to take the initiative in regard to the environment, with empty talk and a general apathy towards conservation characterizing the approach thus far.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: The multinational U.S.-based Cargill corporation was convicted by the Justiça do Trabalho of practicing slave and child labor on the plantations of its Brazilian suppliers.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: Numerous testimonies from former inmates imprisoned in El Salvador’s Mariona prison during the country’s state of exception have accused chief custodian William Ernesto Magaña Rodíguez, aka “Montaña,” of perpetrating and ordering the torture of prisoners.