Narcocorridos, musical compositions that tell a story about drug trafficking, have a complex relationship with audiences and the Mexican government.

Family Front is a social organization that champions heterosexual marriage as the only biologically and socially acceptable form of matrimony. One of its members, Fernando Guzmán, explained that while homosexual couples should be respected for their personal choices, his organization believes marriage should be confined to a man and woman based on biological reasoning.

Despite historic progress in global efforts to combat poverty, Latin America and the Caribbean still have more work to do. The region has made some positive changes: there has been a significant reduction of extreme poverty and inequality.

Abuse at the hands of police officers has received extra media interest in recent weeks, with several cases grabbing the attention of the public. One such instance, that of entrepreneur Tanya Villalba, fueled criticism of the authorities.

The International Federation of Human Rights (IFHR) recently presented a study covering alleged human rights abuses pertaining to the Interoceanic Canal megaproject. Data and testimonials come straight from affected areas of Nicaragua, many of them poor, rural communities.

Established by the United Nations, the International Day of Rural Women was celebrated in Paraguay this year with over 1,000 attendees in the country’s capital of Asunción.

Rosario, the largest city in the Argentinian province of Santa Fe, hosted this year’s Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres, a day in which woman’s rights are celebrated, exercised, and put on display with speeches, workshops, and demonstrations.

According to new data collected by the National Economic Survey, only 1% of individuals 18 years of age and older identify as homosexual.  This is an increase from the .6% of individuals in the 1998 survey conducted by The National Survey of Sexual Behavior of the National AIDS Commission in Chile.

Bolivian president Evo Morales recently inaugurated the new Che Guevara Cultural Center in Vallegrande.

The topic of sexual abuse is not new to Guatemala, having one of the highest abuse rates in all of Latin America, and the sexual exploitation of children is a large part of this abuse.