Issue Aug 07-13 2024: Despite being a goal expounded in its own constitution, Brazil’s efforts to seek continental integration, such as they are, have largely floundered, with crises in neighboring Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua evidencing the inadequacy of Brazilian leadership in the region.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: In Suipacha, 126 kilometers from Buenos Aires, two premium cheese producers attract visitors to come and learn about the production process.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: The United States Government has decided to continue providing support and assistance to Colombia in the fight against drug trafficking.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: The recent elections for the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) in Brazil have highlighted a growing trend: the far right’s strategic efforts to occupy and influence various power structures, often overlooked by the democratic forces who continue to focus almost exclusively on the Executive.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: The complicated U.S.-Mexico relationship regarding the national security of each is torn between a historical mistrust between the U.S. military and security agencies and a growing interdependence; as well as the need for both states to maintain harmonious and constructive cooperation, despite old grudges and often conflicting interests.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: After the distribution of special government committees, legislators have some names ready that will preside over them in the period 2024-2025.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: The Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC), currently the nation’s largest organized criminal group, has agreed to enter into a “socio-legal” dialogue with President Gustavo Petro’s government, which seeks a legal pathway to demobilization and lasting peace for Colombian society.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: Senator Henry Montero of the Creemos party blamed both the “arcismo” and “evismo” blocks of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party for Bolivia’s current economic crisis.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: Belarus has shipped twelve tractors to Cuba by sea, fulfilling a bilateral agreement signed in June to exchange agricultural machinery for medicines.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: Yilport Holding, a Turkish company, will invest over $1.6 billion to upgrade the infrastructure of two major ports in El Salvador, marking the largest private investment in the country’s history.