Latin America

Promoting Women’s Safety in Latin America

There is little evidence on how women’s lives are affected by the extremely high levels of violence that plagues the region. Not only data is limited, only few policies dedicated to addressing violence against women are evidence based.

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US Sanctions on Venezuela Recalls 1980s Embargo on Nicaragua

The US economic sanctions against the Venezuelan government and the warnings from US National Security Advisor John Bolton about a potential economic blockade on the Nicaraguan dictatorship have revived the phantoms of scarcity and extreme poverty that ravaged the country during the decade of the 1980s.

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