October 29th, 2025
#14 | Borders That Sing, Regimes That Endure
The geography of refuge is being redrawn. As the United States closes its doors, Mexico has become the new frontier for those in search of safety, a threshold where migration, policy, and survival intersect.
In the dense forests of Costa Rica, the cry of wild parrots fades beneath the quiet machinery of illegal trade, a reminder that loss often begins unnoticed. In Panama, the abolition of the Ministry of Women highlights the fragile architecture of equality, where progress can be erased with a single decree.
Daniel Ortega endures as an inconvenient relic for Latin America’s left, a ghost that haunts its revolutionary dreams. Yet from exile, the music of Monarca rises — an album that gathers the fragments of Nicaraguan memory and turns them into song.
And in the realm of ideals, the Nobel Peace Prize for María Corina Machado ignites new contradictions. In his column, Simón Rodríguez asks whether recognition can ever be innocent in a region where politics and pain are perpetually intertwined.
