The presidents met in Lima, Peru on Monday at a time when Ecuador is passing on the bloc’s presidency to Peru. Misión Verdad reports, South America’s shift towards leftist governments plays a key role in the desire to expand the Andean community.
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Argentina’s vice president miraculously avoided death after an assassin attempted to shoot her at point-blank range.
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On February 21, 2022, Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled 5-4 to decriminalize abortions, making the procedure legal up to 24 weeks of gestation, reports The Guardian. The historic ruling will change the lives of women and young girls who often resorted to clandestine abortions and were penalized under the healthcare system, says Al Jazeera. Many pro-choice individuals and feminists in Colombia welcomed the decision as a reaffirmation of women’s bodily autonomy, hoping the ruling will inspire other countries to push for legislation protecting women’s rights.
Read MoreFor years, informal work has sustained nearly a third of Latin America’s growing economies. With the economic slump created by the COVID-19 pandemic, informality is a big driver behind the expected two-decade economic regression in Latin America.
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Sergei Valenzuela Staff Writer In the coming months, Keiko Fujimori will face off against Pedro Castillo in Peru’s runoff presidential
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A refugee is defined as “someone with a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group or political opinion”. A migrant, meanwhile, is defined as “someone who voluntarily leaves his or her country of origin to seek a better life and who does not face impediments to returning home”. Yet for the five million people who have fled from Venezuela since 2015 neither of those definitions accurately describes their circumstances.
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On January 25, a dam in Brazil’s Minas Gerais region holding black iron ore waste collapsed and caused the death of over 120 people. At least 220 people are still missing.
Read MoreLatin America is notorious for its gangs and violence, but more deplorable is the state of its prisons. Starting in the 1990s, human rights groups began monitoring the prison conditions in Latin America and found gruesome details.
Read MoreAccording to Reuters, though the report stated that the canal will have an overall positive impact on Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan government must raise the standards applied in building the canal and protect against risks, such as loss of biological reserves and the risk of earthquakes.
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