Latin America

Not long ago, 15-year-old Nelsmar attended a middle-class school in central Venezuela. That was before her family was uprooted by the economic and humanitarian crisis in her country, which has pushed nearly 3.9 million persons to migrate or flee, according to recent estimates of the Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela.

This is the story of two women who are positively transforming social norms in their respective societies, as part of the global movement towards gender equality.

Rural and indigenous populations in countries like Guatemala and Honduras are increasingly on the move – either migrating internally or to neighboring countries.

Transport produces 25% of emissions in Latin America and the Caribbean. While the air in most of the region’s capitals has become almost unbreatheable, cycling has captured the imagination of thousands of Latin Americans.

On June 1, the El Salvador debuted with a new president. The fascination for the new overrides everything, for the uncontaminated or not trampled on, is what voters wanted when they chose Nayib Bukele, a man that was not tied to any party, platform or ideology.

Venezuelans in the city of Washington D.C., in the United States, are currently without consular protection as access to their country’s embassy has remained unstable since April.