• First Lady Jill Biden was scheduled to travel to Latin America (May 18) for five days "to open a tour that includes stops in Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica ahead of June's Summit of the Americas in California." - United Press International, May 18, 2022
• "United States Customs and Border Protection issued a memo (May 6) ending a controversial Border Patrol oversight team charged with investigating incidents involving border enforcement personnel. Instead, investigations will be turned over to the Office of Professional Responsibility." - Time, May 6, 2022
• "Impremedia, owner of some of the largest Spanish-language daily newspapers across the United States, has sold itself to a private-equity-backed start-up that aims to cash in on the growing demand for multicultural audiences." - The New York Times, May 11, 2022
• "Maria Hinojosa and the Futuro Media team were awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting." - Hispanic Executive, May 10, 2022
• "Ricardo Alarcón, who was once Cuba's leading diplomat, the third most powerful Cuban Communist after Fidel Castro and his brother Raul, and his country's most prominent conciliator with the United States, died." He was 84. - The New York Times, May 7, 2022 … "George Pérez, a celebrated comic book artist and writer who gave new life to Wonder Woman in the 1980s and helped create series for DC Comics and Marvel Comics that brought together some of the biggest heroes of the comics world… died." He was 67. - The New York Times, May 9, 2022
• "Cubans poured onto the streets in celebration of International Workers' Day (May 1), the first such parade since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic." - Reuters, May 1, 2022
• Dairo Antonio Úsuga "accused of leading a Colombian cartel was extradited to face federal drug-trafficking charges in Brooklyn, ending a years-long effort to hobble an organization that a federal prosecutor said (May 6) smuggled an 'outrageous' amount of cocaine into the United States." - The New York Times, May 6, 2022