• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said "it would lift an emergency public health order that had restricted immigration at U.S. land borders since the beginning of the pandemic, citing 'current public health conditions,'" The New York Times reported April 2. "The order has been used to expel migrants about 1.7 million times over the past two years."
• Some 41 percent of Latinos own their homes, while another 39 percent are in the market to buy one, according to the "2022 Hispanic Real Estate Survey" by Realtor.com and HarrisX. - Hispanic Marketing 101, April 12, 2022
• Janet Murguía, President and CEO of UnidosUS, the nation's largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, was included in USA Today's 2022 National Women of the Year. - Hispanic Executive, April 12, 2022
• Christy Haubegger, EVP of Communications and Chief Inclusion Officer for Warner Media, was named among Hispanic Executive's "2022 Leading Latinas." - Hispanic Executive, April 1, 2022
• Latin American Inflation Highs: Chile inflation surged to 1.9 percent, its highest level in 29 years. - Reuters, April 8, 2022 Brazil's rose 1.6 percent, the sharpest rise in 28 years. - Reuters, April 8, 2022 Mexico recorded core inflation going up 6.8 percent, a 21-year high. - Bloomberg, April 7, 2022
• "Rodrigo Chaves, a former World Bank official who has promised to shake up the political system of Central America's most stable nation, will become Costa Rica's new president after (the April 3) runoff." - The New York Times, April 5, 2022
• President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador "has responded to the surge in gang killings with mass arrests in poor neighborhoods" in what critics are calling "punitive populism." In slightly over two weeks, "more than 10,000 alleged gang members have been arrested - a huge number for a small country of 6.5 million people." - The Associated Press, April 14, 2022