"The U.S. - Mexico border is the world's deadliest land migration route, according to U.N. migration agency figures," The New York Times reported September 12, "with hundreds losing their lives attempting to make perilous desert crossings." "Hundreds of thousands of migrants are now pouring through a sliver of jungle known as the Darién Gap (which straddles Colombia and Panama), the only land route to the United States from South America." - The New York Times, September 16, 2023 "Federal agents arrested a record number of migrant families who crossed the southern border illegally." - The New York Times, September 2, 2023 Most Latinos speak Spanish: "75 percent say they are able to carry on a conversation in Spanish pretty well or very well." - Pew Research Center, September 20, 2023 Mark A. Gonzalez, a progressive district attorney in Nueces County, Texas came under fire from conservatives. He resigned to run for the Democratic nomination for United States Senate. - The New York Times, September 6, 2023 "Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his whimsical imagination made him one of the world's best-known artists, died." He was 91. - The New York Times, September 16, 2023 … "Bill Richardson, who served two terms as governor of New Mexico and 14 years as a congressman, then continued to devote himself to liberating Americans who were being held hostage or who he believed were being wrongfully detained by hostile countries overseas, died." He was 75. - The New York Times, September 3, 2023 "Mexico's Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion (September 6), ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women's rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin America's trend of widening abortion access." - The Associated Press, September 6, 2023 "Argentina's annual inflation rate shot up to 124.4 percent in August after a sharp devaluation of the peso currency, with a 12.4 percent rise in the month the fastest since 1991, which is driving a painful cost-of-living crisis in the South American country." - Reuters, September 13, 2023