Issue Oct 18-24 2023: The Gabo Festival has reportedly touched down in Montevideo, Uruguay, and has the purpose of generating collaboration networks between journalists and storytellers from all over Latin America.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: In the Brazilian Amazon, 10% of Lake Tefé’s dolphin population died in just two weeks.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: The Dominican Republic is the number one destination for health tourism in the Caribbean, second in Latin America, and 19th in the world, with more than 250,000 patients traveling to the country to seek care in 2022 alone.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: On the 22nd of October, the United States Embassy in Venezuela published a message on X (formerly Twitter) encouraging and supporting the country’s presidential primaries.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: The digitalization of health care provision in Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS) has led to concerns over access, quality, privacy, and privatization.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: Brazilian President Lula da Silva made an emphatic declaration regarding the need to increase the minimum wage on an annual basis, emphasizing that increases just to keep up with inflation were not enough.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: Recent tensions between judicial, legislative, and executive branches have weakened democracies around the world, according to American political scientist Tom Ginsburg.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: Brazil’s legislature has continued its assault on Indigenous rights in open defiance of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), with the National Congress approving Bill (PL) 2.903/2023 just days after the judicial body declared the “time frame thesis” to be unconstitutional.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: Paraguayan Education Minister Luis Ramírez clarified that the “12 Ciencias” project, aimed at addressing sex education in schools, has undergone a year of research with numerous adjustments and is currently being introduced in five schools to gauge its impact on students, parents, and teachers.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: In recent weeks, the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finance initially denied the country was in a recession, but later acknowledged it.