Modelo Especial, a Mexican beer, has replaced Bud Light as "the best-selling beer in America in recent weeks as the Anheuser-Busch-owned brand's PR disaster over a promotion with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney continues." - Crain's Chicago Business, June 14, 2023 Bizarrap, an Argentinian Internet music producer, and Rene Silva, Brazilian journalist/ activist/ entrepreneur, were among Time magazine's "Next Generation Leaders." - Time, June 12, 2023 "Mayor Francis X. Suarez of Miami filed the paperwork for a presidential campaign (June 14), setting him up to join an increasingly crowded field of candidates jockeying to overtake former President Donald J. Trump for the Republican nomination." - The New York Times, June 15, 2023 "Juan Carlos Formell, an acclaimed singer-songwriter who settled in New York after defecting from Cuba and eventually took over as bassist for his famous father, Juan Formell, in Los Van Van, one of the most influential bands of post-Revolutionary Cuba died." He was 59 - The New York Times, June 1, 2023 … "Astrud Gilberto, whose soft and sexy vocal performance on 'The Girl From Ipanema,' the first song she ever recorded, helped make the sway of Brazilian bossa nova a hit sound in the United States in the 1960s, died." She was 83. - The New York Times, June 7, 2023 Gloria Estefan was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, becoming the first Latina to receive that honor. - United Press International, June 16, 2023 Several high-level, Mexican government resignations are creating "an increasingly competitive field for the leftist National Regeneration Movement's" nomination for president. Polls give former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum a slight edge toward becoming Mexico's first female president. - Reuters, June 16, 2023 "Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is scheduled to go on trial this month on charges that he abused his power as president to make baseless attacks against Brazil's election systems." - The New York Times, June 7, 2023