Issue Mar 13-19 2024: The significance of March 8th extends beyond mere celebration; it’s a stark reminder of the persistent gender inequalities in higher education.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: Some restaurants are worth traveling for and can bring someone to an amazing place they otherwise would not have visited.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: President Gustavo Petro reaffirmed that he is not interested in maintaining power nor changing the Constitution.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: The increased pace of deforestation in the Cerrado in the past few years has revealed the inadequacy of leftist state governments in addressing the problem.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: Known as the “star of the favela,” Carolina Maria (1914-1977) was a Brazilian writer who shed light on the daily existence of the country’s mid-century underclass, writing profusely even as she scraped out a meager existence as a scrap collector for her and her children.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: As part of the “Auf dem Rücken der Kamele” (On the Backs of Camels) special exhibition at the Weltmuseum Wien ethnographic museum in Vienna, Austria, Bolivian Vice President David Choquehuanca spoke about the importance of camelids to ecosystems in South America and other parts of the world.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: The U.S. State Department has modified the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to include restrictions on defense imports and exports to Nicaragua.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: In Brazil, xenophobia against Northeasterners is a common occurrence propagated and enabled by a media culture stuck in the past, reliant on stereotypes and long-tired tropes portraying them as illiterate, dyslexic, starving, flour-stealing, lizard-eating, Corinthians-supporting mendicants.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: In Brazil, the Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI) and the Confederação Nacional do Comércio de Bens, Serviços e Turismo (CNC) will present the Supreme Federal Court (STF) with a challenge to the gender-based equal pay law.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: In the first reunion with his governmental ministers of 2024, Brazilian president Lula da Silva stated that there was no longer any doubt that the country suffered an attempted coup d’etat planned by Jair Bolsonaro and his allies.