A farmer was critically wounded Tuesday during what rights groups call indiscriminate military repression in Imbabura province, northern Ecuador. After being declared clinically dead for about five minutes, he regained vital signs and remains in a fight for his life.

President Noboa's economic agenda — marked by fiscal austerity, subsidy removals and an expansion of extractive industries — has deepened rural poverty, driven up food prices and widened youth unemployment, disproportionately affecting Indigenous and farming communities. In response, CONAIE, the Unitary Workers' Front, the National Students' Coordinator and other social groups launched a nationwide strike on September 22 that has now reached its 23rd day.

In Peru, presidents fall like dominoes while the power structure stays intact. Congress’s removal of Dina Boluarte for "permanent moral incapacity" and the interim swearing-in of José Jerí signal not a new phase but the reaffirmation of unelected power—held by Congress and the economic elites that sustain it.

The ouster of Dina Boluarte has not cooled public anger in Peru: youth collectives, university students, and transport unions plan a nationwide strike on October 15 to demand structural change, denounce insecurity, and reject José Jerís legitimacy as president.

In a sharply worded open letter titled De Nobel a Nobel and published by Página/12, Argentine Nobel Peace laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel rebuked Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, asking why she would call for a U.S. invasion of Venezuela and warning that Washington has interests, not allies.

Ecuador has detained 118 people during 21 days of protests over the governments diesel subsidy cut, as Indigenous Resistance Day marches in Quito drew allegations of police and military repression under President Daniel Noboa.

A woman filed a complaint on December 30, 2024, accusing then-congressman and now Peru President José Jerí, along with businessman Marco Cardoza Hurtado, of raping her while she was unconscious after drinking pisco with them and others earlier that night.

El reciente Premio Nacional de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, plantea el fin del indigenismo como corriente de pensamiento en América latina y que en la actualidad la discusión la están retomando voces de los propios pueblos originarios. En su reciente ensayo, José Bengoa nos hace viajar entre Carar y Potosí para dar cuenta de las huellas del colonialismo, el mestizaje y el retorno de una conciencia indígena en el continente.

In an open letter, Colombian President Gustavo Petro rebuked Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for appealing to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intervene in Venezuela, asking how a leader he describes as genocidal could bring peace.

José Jerí’s ascent to Peru’s presidency is already contentious, with open probes and allegations that include sexual assault, bribery, and defiance of court orders—even as he promises a hard line on organized crime and a caretaker transition.