• "The number of migrants crossing the border from Canada into the U.S. is rising - in one sector by more than 700 percent - as Mexicans desperate to get into the U.S. fly to Canada and attempt to cross in frigid temperatures." - NBC News, February 9, 2023
• U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, Arizona, was featured on the 9 Questions page in the February 13/ 20 issue of Time. The fifth-term, Democratic congressman, who served in the Marines and graduated from Harvard, is challenging incumbent Sen. Krysten Sinema who switched from Democrat to Independent.
• Conductor Gustavo Dudamel was featured on the front page of The New York Times Arts Section, February 13 noting his move to the New York Philharmonic. "Dudamel, 42, the rare maestro whose fame transcends classical music … has never quite shed the image of a wunderkind, who at the age of 12 led his first orchestra in Venezuela, where he was born, and at 26 landed the job in Los Angeles."
• "Raquel Welch, the voluptuous movie actress who became the 1960s' first major American sex symbol and maintained that image for a half-century in show business, died," The New York Times reported February 16. "She was 82."
• Mexico - U.S. agricultural trade surpassed $73 billion last year, an increase of 13 percent compared to 2021 - Hispanic Marketing 101, February 16, 2023
• "The government of Nicaragua has stripped more than 300 political opponents of their citizenship over the past week, in another sign that the country's authoritarian president has no intention of easing his grip at home despite a deal, completed days earlier, that freed hundreds of political prisoners and sent them to the United States." - The New York Times, February 18, 2023
• "Brazil's federal government expects 46 million people to join the (Carnival) festivities that officially began (February 17) and run through February 22." - The Associated Press, February 18, 2023