Issue Apr 10-16 2024: The latest novel from Sergio Ramírez, El Caballo Dorado, is a story of adventures and troubles that begins in Siret, a lost town in the Carpathians in northern Romania, and ends in Nicaragua, after the overthrowing of the dictator José Santos Zelaya.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: Esteban Lazo, the head of Cuba’s parliament, returned from an extensive tour through Africa, supposedly with “sensitive information” about the situation of kidnapped doctors in Kenya.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: “In the 1980s… in elementary schools, alongside name-calling and teasing about physical appearance, it was common to insult someone because they only ate eggs at home.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: Amid ongoing tensions between Colombia’s armed groups, President Gustavo Petro is pushing for a more inclusive approach at the negotiating table.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: Argentina’s Ministry of Education decided to terminate the “Books for Learning” program, which supplied over 14 million books to schools nationwide.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: The impact of composer and pianist Mariano Mores, famed as a “tango idol” from Buenos Aires, is still felt to this day.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: From April 15 to April 26, the United Nations will be hosting a series of presentations in New York relating to challenges faced by Indigenous populations.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: The Chilean film Los hiperbóreos by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña will be presented at the 2024 Filmmakers’ Fortnight among 21 other feature films at this parallel section of the Cannes Festival.

Issue Apr 03-09 2024: In the evening of April 5, 2024, the Ecuadorian Policía Nacional stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito and arrested former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas. Fleeing detention on corruption charges that many outside observers interpret as political persecution, Glas had been granted asylum in the embassy. Ecuador’s action outraged the international

Issue Apr 03-09 2024: Argentina’s state universities received the same budgets in 2024 as they did in 2023, despite inflation of 270% over the past year. As a result, school funding is only expected to last until May or June.