Peru began the year with 11 femicides in January, despite progress made in laws and statutes and mass demonstrations against gender-based violence. This situation is also seen in other Latin American countries, raising the need to delve deeper into the causes of the phenomenon.
Read MoreIsamar Javiera Molina Medrano, 24, hoped to go into marketing, but the repression unleashed by Ortega repression beginning last April 18th ended her dream. Later, having raised her voice against the dictatorship forced her into exile in Costa Rica.
Read MoreAmid the flying bullets of several police attacks in Matagalpa, the voices of young people calling for Nelly Roque could be heard. They always tried to make sure she was okay, because she was one of the few women at the barricades. Also, she always carried her camera, so that she could document the brutal police and paramilitary repression that they were suffering.
Read MoreAbout seven years ago, Ernesto Rivero Suarez created the La Ecologica Car Wash, which makes use of a system not used anywhere else in Cuba, he claims, allowing him to clean and recycle greywater and rainwater, in a continuous and closed cycle, so that they can be used to clean cars without using drinking water.
Read MoreThe protests in Venezuela demanding an end to the presidency of Nicolás Maduro in the last 10 days of January, whose soundtrack was the sound of banging on pots and pans in working-class neighborhoods, had a high human cost: more than 40 deaths, dozens wounded and about a thousand detainees, including 100 women and 90 children under 18.
Read More“We were able to determine beyond a doubt that the FSLN was violating the human rights of Nicaraguan citizens, and even of journalists,” said Zamora during an interview with Carlos F. Chamorro on the television news program Esta Noche. “We’ve witnessed the testimony of the exiles, who recounted their experiences,” he stated.
Read MoreSocial organizations in the central Mexican municipality of Yecapixtla managed to halt the construction of a large thermoelectric plant in the town and are now designing a project to convert the installation into a solar panel factory, which would bring the area socioeconomic and environmental dividends.
Read MoreLast weekend, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro went to Fort Paracamay, in the country’s north, to oversee and take part in military exercises, but with a very clear objective: to show his followers and the world that he has the Armed Forces’ support and loyalty. And, it is precisely this support that will shape the South American country’s immediate future…
Read MoreThe crusade against comprehensive sex education by conservative and religious sectors undermines progress in Latin America and could further drive up rates of teen pregnancy, communicable diseases and abuse against girls and adolescents. Brazil, where far-right President Jair Bolsonaro took office on Jan. 1, backed by the country’s neo-Petencostal churches, is a case in point.
Read MoreNicaraguan journalist Miguel Mora and Spanish MEP Ramon Jauregui Atondo spoke for half an hour in a cell of the El Chipote prison in Managua. The talk was considered by the European MP as “moving.” The case of the journalist drew the attention of a mission of the European Parliament, which was in Nicaragua last week to learn in situ what happened in the country since last April.
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