Women represent half of Mexico’s Congress and hold key positions in politics and the judiciary. But the country is still dogged by high rates of femicide.
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As detailed in a June 2023 event in Grenoble, France, business schools hold partial responsibility for the longstanding behaviour of multinational corporations (MNCs) in indigenous territories.
Migrants who cross the treacherous Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia often experience violence and abuse, extortion or detention by migration authorities.
African economic growth is central to what happens in this century to both global poverty and global inequality.
Argentinians will vote in a new president on Oct. 22, 2023. But the front-runner’s plans to slash health funding might find resistance.
The IMF’s US57 billion bailout to Argentina in 2018 was the biggest loan it has ever extended.
The mention of the Falklands/Malvinas territorial dispute in an EU document shows that, post-Brexit, Brussels no longer feels beholden to toe the UK’s line on sovereignty.
The recent kidnapping of a US nurse has put a focus on the plight of Haitians living with organized crime every day. But few governments are willing to intervene.
Relations between the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean will resume at the highest level after eight years without summits of presidents from both regions. Spain is the main driving force.
Surging deforestation in Bolivia means the country now ranks as one of the highest carbon emitters in the world.
Terms like ‘Third World’ and ‘developing nations’ have long fallen out of fashion.
Brazil and India are among the countries pointedly not taking sides over the war in Ukraine. But this is not the nonaligned movement of yesteryear.
People across Latin America are demanding greater political participation. Some countries, including Colombia and Chile, have responded by involving citizens in the making of their constitutions.
Public outrage over alleged abuse has been muted in much of Latin America for years, partly because the church remains one of the region’s most powerful institutions – but that may be changing.
During the only major performance she gave in her home country, Gilberto was booed.
The return of an important monument to Mexico puts a spotlight on a culture whose influence is still felt in the Americas today.
A fire killed 38 migrants in a Mexico detention facility in March 2023. A sociologist’s conversations with migrants show that they had a common response to this news – a deep sense of grief.
Latino characters have traditionally been underrepresented in mainstream comics. But Spider-Man’s backstory makes him the perfect superhero to be recast as a minority.
Lula’s courting of – or by – China and Western powers has confounded critics. But in reality, it is a continuation of the foreign policy he pursued during his earlier term in power.
As US influence in Latin America has waned, Beijing has been able to expand business interests in the region on the back of shady practices.
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