Failures by Mexican law enforcement aggravate rise in killings of women
Mexico City, MexicoReuters When 27-year-old Ariadna Lopez was found dead beside a highway in the central Mexican state of Morelos in October, local investigators were fast to declare there were “no signs of violence.” Their version – that Lopez died of asphyxiation as a result of alcohol intoxication – quickly unravelled. A girl places a […]
Wow!: How apps are helping Latin American domestic workers fight for their rights
DIANA BAPTISTA, ANASTASIA MOLONEY and FABIO TEIXEIRA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report…
Latin American environmentalists most at risk of murder, report finds
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters More environmentalists were killed in Latin America than any other region in the world last year, according to a report by advocacy group Global Witness, underscoring the growing threat to activists in the resource-rich region. Of the 200 environmentalists killed globally in 2021, three-quarters of them were from Latin America, the […]
Latin America’s kids slid into education black hole during pandemic
La Paz, Bolivia/Sao Paulo, BrazilReuters In Bolivia’s highland city La Paz, Maribel Sanchez’s children spent much of the last two years huddling over a small smartphone screen to attend online classes amid a lengthy lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. The two boys, aged 11 and eight, frequently missed lessons when their timetables collided as […]
Corn price hike forces Mexicans to cut back on tortillas
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation Business at Marco Antonio Jimenez’s taco stall in Mexico City was just starting to recover from repeated COVID-19 lockdowns when global corn prices skyrocketed, sinking his sales once again. The surge in the cost of corn – which is used to make Mexico’s staple tortilla – forced Jimenez to raise […]
Poor the hardest hit in Latam by Russia’s Ukraine invasion – IMF
New York City, USReuters The poorest will be the hardest hit across Latin America and the Caribbean by the economic fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the region facing further inflationary pressure, a senior official at the International Monetary Fund said this week. “High inflation, especially food inflation, affects the poor in our region […]
Colombia’s highest court legalises abortion up to 24 weeks
Updated: 11.15am (AEDT)Bogota, ColombiaReuters Judges on Colombia’s constitutional court voted on Monday to decriminalise abortion until 24 weeks of gestation, the court said in a statement, in a victory for abortion rights groups which sued to have the procedure removed from the penal code. The decision adds Colombia to a list of Latin American countries […]
Changing practices: How a surge of evangelicals in Spain is being fuelled by Latin Americans
ALBERTO ARCE, of The Associated Press, reports on how huge surges in Spain’s migrant and evangelical population in recent decades is producing profound changes in how faith is practiced in a country long dominated by the Catholic church…
South America, battered by COVID-19, now winning global vaccination race
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/Buenos Aires, ArgentinaReuters Throughout much of 2020 and early 2021, South America was ground zero in the global fight against COVID-19. Oxygen ran low in Peru. Gravediggers worked through the night in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Bodies were stuffed into shipping containers in Guayaquil, Ecuador. A healthcare worker takes a swab sample from […]
Seeking strength in numbers, US-bound migrants in Mexico form new caravan
Tapachula, Mexico Reuters A new caravan of about 3,000 migrants mostly from Haiti and Central America set off on foot from southern Mexico on Thursday, chanting “freedom!” as they headed north towards the US-Mexico border. Many of the migrants embarking from the city of Tapachula near Guatemala said they hope to catch up with another […]