Stories about Latin America from March, 2020
Venezuela’s feminist movement begins rising above political polarization
“The State doesn’t take care of me, my female friends do."
Forty years on, a locked-down El Salvador remembers the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero online
The archbishop was shot by a death squad at the start of El Salvador's civil war, becoming an iconic figure in the struggle against human rights violations in Latin America.
Digital activism, paintings, and a national strike—how Mexican women protest gender-based violence
The staggering levels of violence against women are front and center in Mexico's feminist movements.
The Mexican engraver reviving the magical imagery of Chiapas
Mexico has a prolific tradition of printmaking, its defining visual characteristics having endured from pre-Hispanic times into modernity
Even with renewed laws, Brazil struggles to protect women amid rising femicide
Brazil has never had that many laws tackling violence against women. Yet it ranks fifth in femicides worldwide.
‘Protecting forests is crucial to cure pandemics,’ indigenous leaders say
"If the forests are cut down, where are we going to get medicine?"
Chilean women proclaim: ‘We are no longer afraid’
"We are tired of the abuse, of the constant violence. Everything we do is questioned, we encountered obstacles over and over again just to live a normal life. It is over, we are no longer afraid."
With no officially confirmed cases, El Salvador locks itself down to prevent COVID-19
"What would Italy give to be in our position?"
‘For this new generation of women, the public body is political,’ says founder of Chilean feminist political party
Pía Barros is a co-founder of the Feminist Alternative Party, one of the new platforms that emerged in Chile in the wake of the 2019-2020 protests.
In Argentina, women resumed the fight for #LegalAbortion2020
In 2020, Argentine feminists rekindle the fight for legal abortion with renewed strength and hope.
The anti-feminism of Mexican President López Obrador
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador keeps sending messages that show an astounding lack of support for the victims of femicide.
In photos: #8M throughout Latin America
Around Latin America, more than a million women marched against gender violence.
Why did it take Peruvian authorities 3 years to investigate this woman's murder?
Authorities first dismissed the disappearance alleging she had left her husband for another man.
From Sweden to Mexico, indigenous people explain why their languages are disappearing
The Nordic regions of Europe are thousands of kilometres away from Mexico or Peru, but both witness the destruction of their native peoples' identities
Caribbean tourism threatened by the region's first cases of COVID-19
Three confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus have shown up in the French-speaking Caribbean and another in the Dominican Republic, placing the region on even greater alert.
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