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Category: Colombia

Q&A with creator of Colombian physical therapy app HealthPhy: “It can inspire other women who dare to enter into tech”

Q&A with creator of Colombian physical therapy app HealthPhy: “It can inspire other women who dare to enter into tech”

Michael Krumholtz
December 18, 2020

Tatiana Chavarriaga of Medellín, Colombia was recently named one of the 35 top innovators under 35…

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SoftBank set to invest $3 billion more into Latin American tech for post-pandemic deals

SoftBank set to invest $3 billion more into Latin American tech for post-pandemic deals

Latin America Reports
November 24, 2020

The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank recently gave the green light to its Latin American fund to invest…

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Could tech be Colombia’s ticket to economic recovery?

Could tech be Colombia’s ticket to economic recovery?

Michael Krumholtz
October 30, 2020

Colombian President Iván Duque has repeatedly said during his time in office that he wants the Adean…

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Public sentiment turning against migrants in Latin America, per new index

Public sentiment turning against migrants in Latin America, per new index

Michael Krumholtz
September 24, 2020

Nowhere in the world has public sentiment turned more significantly against migrants than in Latin America,…

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Q&A: How one Latin American startup is using tech to help hotels keep profits during the COVID-19 pandemic

Q&A: How one Latin American startup is using tech to help hotels keep profits during the COVID-19 pandemic

Latin America Reports
September 23, 2020

It’s no secret that the tourism industry in Latin America has been flattened by COVID-19, as the…

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How ed-tech solutions are helping students in Latin America without Internet access

How ed-tech solutions are helping students in Latin America without Internet access

Michael Krumholtz
September 18, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has put more than 150 million children in Latin America and the Caribbean out…

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Latin America has a police brutality problem of its own

Latin America has a police brutality problem of its own

Michael Krumholtz
September 14, 2020

This past week 10 people were killed by police in Colombia as demonstrators have taken to the streets…

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Women in Latin America facing increased violence during pandemic

Women in Latin America facing increased violence during pandemic

Michael Krumholtz
September 10, 2020

Women’s activists in Mexico took over the country’s National Human Rights Commission building…

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Funding continues to boom for Latin America’s fintech industry

Funding continues to boom for Latin America’s fintech industry

Michael Krumholtz
September 04, 2020

Major financial technology firms in Latin America have reported at least $8 billion in funding up to…

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Unemployment rises across Latin America as COVID-19 continues to hammer economies

Unemployment rises across Latin America as COVID-19 continues to hammer economies

Michael Krumholtz
August 29, 2020

For decades, the region had success in lifting people out of poverty, as impoverished rates had fallen…

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Women in STEM in Latin America
by LatinAmericaReports

Marcela Torres is the former CEO of Hola Code, a Mexican social enterprise that provides software development training for refugees and migrants who have returned to Mexico after having lived in the U.S. She was recently named winner of the ‘Entrepreneur’ category in the list of Latin America’s top innovators under the age of 35 published by MIT Technology Review. In honour of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science earlier this month, we interviewed Torres about being a female CEO of a tech company in Latin America, a region lacking support and funding for women working in STEM.

Women in STEM in Latin America
Women in STEM in Latin America
February 28, 2020
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Meet the teenage indigenous activist fighting climate change
January 24, 2020
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Audio Article: Uber’s departure from Colombia sparks debate over app regulation
January 21, 2020
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Audio Article: Uber’s departure from Colombia sparks debate over app regulation
January 21, 2020
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Special: Protests in Colombia
November 27, 2019
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Illegally trafficking night monkeys in the Amazon
November 19, 2019
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Social unrest in Latin America
October 30, 2019
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Social unrest in Latin America
October 30, 2019
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