About 865,000 women underwent illegal abortions in Brazil in 2013, and pressure is building for a real debate. Peru is the country in South America where the largest number of teenagers leaves school due to pregnancy.
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A Colombian court has ordered 11 companies to halt gold-mining operations in a 50,000-hectare reserve in the northwest of the country and return the land to the native tribe that previously lived there.
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Lima, seen as a “chaotic megalopolis,” faces urgent challenges to structure its growth, while indigenous leaders in Peru are learning to use drones to look after their communities.
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Governments have ignored the issue of forced displacement in their countries, and are now being obliged to deal with millions of such victims.
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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says that well-paid jobs with social security and rights are one of the keys to ending inequality in the region.
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“From a lack of toilet paper that caused a stink, to a dearth of staple food items that left shoppers sucking salt, the Venezuelan people have been reeling under the blows of almost constant shortages for well over a year. A recent addition to the chronic shortage list…is a scarcity of quality breast implants that
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