Issue Oct 11-17 2023: In a crucial development, the United States has affirmed its willingness to ease sanctions against Venezuela on the condition that Nicolás Maduro’s government undertake democratic reforms and ensure genuinely competitive elections for the upcoming presidential elections in 2024.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: Protests in December of 2022 and January of 2023 left forty-nine civilians dead after clashes with police and the military.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: Echer Becerra, a Venezuelan migrant, narrated the harrowing journey he and his family faced on their way to Mexico City. Members of the Gulf Clan kidnapped them in the Darién Jungle, notorious for its history of organized crime abuses against migrants.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: On October 10, 2023, Guatemala marked more than a week of blockades and national strike. Protesters demanded the resignation of the attorney general and head of the Ministerio Público, Consuelo Porras, whom they accuse of trying to reverse the results of the general elections held this year. Indeed, President-elect Bernardo Arévalo

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: The government of Costa Rica opened the Centro de Atención Temporal de Migrantes (CATEM) along the Panamanian border to address the growing influx of migrants crossing the Darién jungle.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Just a few years ago, the idea of a second wave of leftist governments in Latin America seemed a given, with the return to power of MAS in Bolivia in 2020; the election of Chilean President Boric in 2022 and former Peruvian President Castillo in 2021; the Obrador and Fernández administrations

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Many have begun to look for correspondences between the genesis of Hamas, the Islamic militias who took over the Gaza Strip, and that of the armed gangs who today control Haiti.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: A resort in Trancoso, Bahia – the Uxua Casa Hotel & Spa – was ranked the best in South America and second best in the world by international tourism magazine Condé Nast Traveler.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Between September 2022 to September 2023 deforestation in the Amazônia Legal area fell from 1,454.76 km² to 590.3 km², according to the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe).

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: The Maduro administration will approve the resumption of talks previously underway with the Plataforma Unitaria in Mexico in 2021, thanks to thawing relations between Venezuela and the United States.