The issue of safe, legal abortion has come to the forefront of Uruguay’s political sphere.

Since protests began last April, sectors of Nicaragua’s civil society—specifically feminist groups—have clashed with the Ortega-Murillo Regime.

Since 1981, November 25 has marked a day of protest and commemoration of violence against women across Latin America. This year, women took to the streets and social media to speak against gender violence again.

In the traditional Costa Rican oxcart parade of San José, one sees beautiful painted oxcarts, huge traditional masks, folk dancers, and something unexpected: children leading the carts.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has declared that the face of extreme rural poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean is female, and that people in rural areas have no access to adequate nutrition at 3.5 times the rate of people in urban areas.

To date, 100,000 people have benefitted from the Banco de Alimentos’ food distribution programs.

Thousands of Chileans participated in the seventh “a step for family” march in San Cristóbal-Baní, rejecting the decriminalization of abortion under the motto: “we save both lives.”

Two Argentinian projects are in the semifinal of the History Channel’s “Una idea para cambiar el mundo” competition.

The book market is shrinking in Brazil, which can be seen through the recent closure of bookstores Fnac and Saraiva.

The “Panorama de la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional 2018” report, recently published as a collaboration among four United Nations agencies, cites malnutrition, hunger, overweightness, and obesity as major health problems that not only plague Latin America today, but are increasingly affecting more individuals by the year.