Two indigenous women in Latin America honored with top prize for environmental protection
A pair of indigenous environmental activists in Latin America received the 2020 Goldman Environmental…
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Category: Ecuador
Public sentiment turning against migrants in Latin America, per new index
Nowhere in the world has public sentiment turned more significantly against migrants than in Latin America,…
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How ed-tech solutions are helping students in Latin America without Internet access
The COVID-19 pandemic has put more than 150 million children in Latin America and the Caribbean out…
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Unemployment rises across Latin America as COVID-19 continues to hammer economies
For decades, the region had success in lifting people out of poverty, as impoverished rates had fallen…
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How innovative tech is combating COVID-19 across Latin America
As Latin America finds itself as the world’s current coronavirus hotspot, tech companies and governments…
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Helena Gualinga is a voice for indigenous communities in the fight against climate change
When climate activist Helena Gualinga was a child, she lived in fear of not being able to return to…
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MIT Technology Review reveals 2019 list of Innovators Under 35 LATAM
Earlier this week, the MIT Technology Review published its 2019 list of Latin America’s most innovative…
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Excessive police violence in protests cause deaths and thousands of injuries
Protests sweeping the Latin American continent have have taken their toll. In Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia,…
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Protesters in Ecuador and Chile resort to violence in order to be heard
October was a volatile month for Latin America. After grievances over social inequality reached a tipping…
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Ecuadorian entrepreneurs hit hard by political unrest
Recent protests in Ecuador over deeply unpopular austerity measures brought the country to a standstill.…
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