"The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to use military lawyers as temporary immigration judges," The New York Times reported September 6. "The New York Times has reported that the administration was considering a proposal to send about 600 military lawyers to work temporarily as immigration judges, as the White House pushes to increase the rate of deportations." SNL's Marcelo Hernandez, NBC anchor Tom Llamas and actress Isabela Merced were among Time's Latino Leaders 2025. — Time, September 17, 2025 "For decades across Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. drug enforcement officials have tried to cut off narcotics trafficking by intercepting boats, trucks and even horses laden with drugs and arresting the smugglers. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said those efforts are not bold enough. He has helped steer the Trump administration toward a much more aggressive — and deadly — tactic: use military force to destroy suspected drug boats and kill the people on board, without a legal process." — The New York Times, September 13, 2025 "Hermeto Pascoal, the eccentric, prodigiously prolific Brazilian composer and self-taught multi-instrumentalist who rose from a childhood of rural privation to become a favorite of jazz musicians and audiences around the world with a taste for the unpredictable and adventurous, died." He was 89. — The New York Times, September 16, 2025 … "Rosa Roisinblit, an Argentine human-rights activist who fought to establish the truth about the fate of her pregnant daughter and thousands of others who were kidnapped by security personnel and 'disappeared' during the country's 1976-83 military dictatorship, died." She was 106. — The New York Times, September 12, 2025 "For the first time in 215 years of Mexican history, a woman (President Claudia Sheinbaum) led the national cry of independence (September 15), echoing the original call made by a priest for rebellion against Spanish rule." — The New York Times, September 17, 2025 "Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's former President, was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison (September 11) after the country's Supreme Court convicted him of attempting a coup to stay in power despite losing in the 2022 election." — Time, September 18, 2025