Latin America / The Caribbean

In brief

Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Paraguay, Uruguay

7/26/2016

Peru

Lomas of Asia: Opting for the conservation of the last desert oases

Lomas de Asia Project is a conservation proposal of the biodiversity and the cultural heritage of the lomas managed and undertaken by a campesino community.

7/21/2016

Colombia

The FARC prepares to leave behind the armed struggle

The government promotes a plebiscite to make it possible to formalize, legitimize and incorporate to existing norms what is agreed to in Havana.

7/20/2016

Guatemala

Afrodescendant population struggle to be taken into account

Afro-Guatemalans feel invisible in a country where a deep racism persists.

7/18/2016

Colombia

Afro-Colombian population, the hardest hit by the war

The 75 percent of the nearly five million afro-descendants live in poverty, without access to public services, with more than 700,000 of them being displaced.

7/18/2016

Honduras

Attempts to disappear Garifuna people

Development projects pushed by the government in the Atlantic coast threaten the survival of afro-descendant communities.

7/18/2016

Uruguay

Historical first harvest of legal marijuana

The application of the law regarding cannabis use continued with the harvest of its first legal plantation.

7/14/2016

Latin America

Changing the model by putting sustainability of life as the central principle

Domestic and care work, like nature, are considered inexhaustible resources for capitalist exploitation.

7/14/2016

Ecuador

ECUADOR: Solidarity economy: a new development model

Solidarity, cooperation, mutual assistance, reciprocity, and fairness are some of the principles of solidarity economy cooperatives.

7/14/2016

Mexico

Teachers protest against education reform

Massive street demonstrations by education workers leave at least eight dead in clashes with police.

6/30/2016

Latin America / The Caribbean

In brief

Latin America and the Caribbean, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru

6/30/2016

Suriname

People take to the streets to confront the government

Thousands of people turned out in Paramaribo to protest against the rising cost of living.

6/22/2016

Costa Rica

Flow of migrants on their way to the United States

Authorities address problem of unwelcomed migration from humanitarian and legal perspective.

6/22/2016

Paraguay

“Criadazgo” is a form of modern slavery

Boys and girls are given by their families for domestic work in exchange for room and board.

6/22/2016

Venezuela

Poor sectors are the most affected by medicines shortage

The government attributes the shortage to an economic war which, it points out, affects the import and distribution of medicines and hospital supplies.

6/14/2016

Peru

“Anti-Fujimorismo” triumphant

For the second time now, the daughter of former dictator is defeated in presidential elections.

6/14/2016

Puerto Rico

In the Republican electoral crossroads

The refusal of Puerto Rican Republican leaders to support Donald Trump in the presidential race of 2016 is another chapter in the complicated history between the Island and the United States.

6/14/2016

Chile

Indigenous by grace

Legislation allows non indigenous persons to be able to self-identify as such.

6/3/2016

Argentina

Former dictator convicted for the Operation Condor

Court sentences those responsible for crimes committed by the apparatus of South American dictatorships.

6/3/2016

Bolivia

Gender Identity Law is now a reality

Bolivia now has a law that allows people to change name and sexual identity.

5/27/2016