I let an LLM crawl my personal database and surface key events, data points, and articles. The LLM provided me with an outline, which I then turned into prose.

Colombia suspended this practice in 2015, citing public health concerns after the World Health Organization determined that glyphosate, the herbicide's active ingredient, is a probable carcinogen.

The Trump administration has now put four Ecuadorian criminal groups or gangs on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. It's not clear what the strategic value is.

The ELN specializes in attacking oil infrastructure. Kicking this hornet’s nest inside Venezuela could complicate Trump’s oil deal and create new problems for Delcy Rodriguez’s fragile, U.S.-friendly, ...

No specific announcements of big military aid to Colombia during Rubio's visit yesterday; it seems like nothing's been decided yet.

If new anti-“refueling station” operations near Ecuador are truly happening according to US and international law, then they’re a sharp improvement over the past year’s lethal, illegal boat strikes.

A U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released on September 7, covering harms done by Trump-era U.S.-Mexico border wall construction, includes the only number I’ve seen of the total ...

Update January 29, 2024: CBP has released final December 2023 data. Read an updated post with nine charts illustrating migration trends. (This number does not include approximately 50,000 more ...

The U.S. government’s 2023 fiscal year ended on September 30. Here’s a comparison of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, by migrants’ nationalities, over the past three fiscal years.

The list below is an excerpt from tomorrow’s Border Update, which I’m still drafting. But it deserves to be shared separately. But even though none committed any crimes in El Salvador, the government ...

Here’s my most up-to-date OPML file of RSS feeds from Latin American online news outlets, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations. If that sentence made sense to you, import this file into ...

Here’s what you get when you tally ICE arrests per month, in the Deportation Data Project’s processed ICE Arrests dataset, excluding likely duplicates, from FOIA-obtained data. 49,091 arrests in July.