Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: The Director of the Colombian Book Chamber, Emiro Aristizábal, discussed the state of reading in Colombia.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: In January, financial institutions in El Alto, Bolivia, provided a total of Bs 13.974 billion in loans, with microloans comprising 65.7% of this amount, according to a report by the Financial System Supervision Authority (ASFI).

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: Recently, the Casa Fugaz in Monumental Callao highlighted the perspectives of two notable Peruvian creatives: painter Pancho Guerra García and columnist Rafo León.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: Within President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term, 89 Indigenous activists and environmentalists have been killed.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: The Grape Harvest National Festival in Mendoza takes place in March.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: After recording nearly 260 homicides last year, as criminal gangs continue to war over drug territory, Rosario stands alone as Argentina’s bloodiest city.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: On February 25, 2024, former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil held a rally in São Paulo at which he defended himself against accusations of plotting a coup. He gathered around 200,000 supporters from all over Brazil and called on his political allies to vote through an “amnesty” for him and others.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: In Peru, there is a crisis not only of political parties, but also the underlying political and national narratives that sustain them.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: “There were more than a few of us who…thought that the political and cultural standards of Argentines would be a sufficient obstacle to prevent someone with the absurd approaches like those of Milei” from winning the presidency.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: At 1.3 children per woman, Chile has the lowest fertility rate of any country in Latin America.