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The 20 LatinX Tech Leaders of 2020 Featured

The 20 LatinX Tech Leaders of 2020

Latin America Reports
December 21, 2020

Latin America Reports presents 20 brilliant tech leaders with ties to Latin America who had impressive…

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Colombia’s government is digitalizing social inclusion, expanding connectivity Colombia

Colombia’s government is digitalizing social inclusion, expanding connectivity

Sophie Foggin
March 06, 2020

Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (MinTic) is currently rolling out…

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MIT Technology Review announces the winners of Innovators Under 35 LATAM Argentina

MIT Technology Review announces the winners of Innovators Under 35 LATAM

Annette Lin
February 10, 2020

Solar panels derived from micro-algae, a program that gives migrants the opportunity to learn how to…

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Mexico City to host MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 Argentina

Mexico City to host MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35

Latin America Reports
January 10, 2020

On January, 30, one of the largest global communities of innovators, pioneers, and social change agents…

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Colombian startups look abroad for funding opportunities Colombia

Colombian startups look abroad for funding opportunities

Jim Glade
November 12, 2019

Access to capital at various stages of a technology startup’s life cycle is crucial to its survival…

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Brazilian real-estate startup becomes Latin America’s latest unicorn Brazil

Brazilian real-estate startup becomes Latin America’s latest unicorn

Sophie Foggin
September 12, 2019

São Paulo-based startup Quinto Andar, which translates to ‘fifth floor,’ has just become Brazil’s…

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Holberton School Medellín: Training the next generation of software engineers Colombia

Holberton School Medellín: Training the next generation of software engineers

Sophie Foggin
August 20, 2019

The Holberton School, first established in San Francisco in 2016, has recently opened a site in Medellín…

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How to save a dying indigenous language Analysis

How to save a dying indigenous language

Frances Jenner
May 23, 2019

According to UNESCO‘s latest survey of world languages, 43 percent of them are endangered. Since…

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Latin America’s entrepreneurs take center stage at this year’s Seedstars World Summit Argentina

Latin America’s entrepreneurs take center stage at this year’s Seedstars World Summit

Sophie Foggin
April 05, 2019

Argentina’s Blended was crowned the winning startup at this year’s Seedstars World Summit, the tech…

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Latin America leads the way for women working in STEM News Brief

Latin America leads the way for women working in STEM

Sophie Foggin
March 08, 2019

Thirteen-year-old Wendy Estefanía Giraldo Estrada, from the Antioquian municipality of Rionegro, likes…

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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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