It is time to rise up and fight a long neglected taboo: menstruation. United Nations human rights experts called on the international community to break taboos around menstruation, noting its impacts on women and girls’ human rights. [The issues involved are rarely a concern of male leaders and persist in different degrees throughout Latin America including Cuba.]
Read MoreRussian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping have both defended an authoritarian model of capitalism, which could be called “development with a dictator’s face”. So it should come as no surprize that they both try to save the endebted government of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro from collapse.
Read MorePersonally, I can’t help but feel like the Venezuelan crisis is affecting my life two-fold: as a Cuban and as a democratic socialist. As a Cuban because, every day, I suffer the adverse economic consequences of our national economy’s absolute dependency on the solvency of its partner of the hour, just like all Cubans do. And, that partner has been Venezuela over the past two decades.
Read MoreGermany’s ambassador to Venezuela was declared a persona non grata on Wednesday, as Caracas said that Daniel Kriener had intervened in the country’s internal affairs. He was given 48 to leave the crisis-ridden country.
Read MoreVenezuela’s self-declared interim president, Juan Guaido, on Tuesday announced a “gradual” strike in the public sector to pile up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, as the threat of being arrested still hung over him.
Read MoreIt has been a month since Juan Guaidó, president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, declared that he assumed the powers of the Venezuelan presidency – currently in the possession of Nicolás Maduro – and the political crisis in the country is far from over.
Read MoreDesigned mostly by men, many digital applications are not suitable for women, but some initiatives are beginning to include them as programmers and beneficiaries in Latin America, where the gender gap is also technological.
Read MoreIn the tiny eastern Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, proverbs relating to the weather are very common.Everyone knows that “Who has cocoa outside must look out for rain”, has nothing to do with the drying of the bean from which chocolate is made or the sudden downpours common in this tropical nation.
Read MoreVenezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido returned to his country without being arrested on Monday, announcing a new round of anti-government protests and vowing not to give up until President Nicolas Maduro is ousted from power.
Read MoreCrime, a key issue in far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s election in Brazil, has a dimension that is gaining in visibility and could turn against his government: gender violence. Elaine Caparroz, a 55-year-old landscaper, was beaten for four hours in the early hours of Jan. 16 in her own home. As a result, she was unrecognizable, lost a tooth and needed 60 stitches.
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