Although there is vast cultural diversity in Latin America, tolerance and racial equality does not necessarily follow. Every day in Latin America, people of indigenous and African descent suffer from racial discrimination.

The National Convention for Peruvian Agriculture (Conveagro) is asking the government to create a S/ 5 billion bailout fund that would save more than 660,000 agricultural families from bankruptcy.

Although the health emergency brought about by COVID-19 has led to a reduction in business for Ecuadorian tattoo artists, many owners of local tattoo parlors have adapted successfully to the new conditions.

Miguel Barreto, the regional director of Latin America and the Caribbean for the United Nation’s World Food Program (WFP), stated that amid the coronavirus pandemic, a “hunger pandemic” is also being faced in Latin America.

On June 1, government authorities announced that quarantine restrictions according to gender and ID number would be lifted.

Health officials indicate that over 3,700 Peruvians have died of the coronavirus.

The Catholic Church in Costa Rica activated a complaint protocol against priests accused of sexual abuse of minors.

Recently, the World Health Organization warned that Latin America has become the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gardens and orchards seem to have become palpably more fashionable throughout Paraguay’s Misiones region in the aftermath of the coronavirus.

The Ministerio Público of Honduras will begin to criminally prosecute people who intentionally spread COVID-19 and businesses who violate the biosecurity measures meant to curb the pandemic.