A new public ordinance has prevented street vendors in the La Victoria municipality of Lima, which encompasses Gamarra, the current home to 15,000 traveling street vendors.

From 2006 to 2016, the consumption of alcoholic drinks increased 43.5% in Brazil, and February 18th is dedicated to fight alcohol addiction.

Leticia is one of ten adolescents serving a sentence at Uruguay’s Instituto Nacional de Inclusión Social Adolescente (Inisa).

The Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR) has called for states to ensure their legal systems are compatible with the interpretation of the American Convention on Human Rights outlined in advisory opinion number 24.

The director of DANE, Colombia’s national department of statistics, recently affirmed that any Colombian earning between 450,000 and 2,250,000 pesos per month is part of Colombia’s middle class.

A sewage pipe rupture has caused a critical problem of access to drinking water in the hills of San Juan de Lurigancho (SJL).

A recent study conducted by the Estado Nación (EN) and the Consejo Nacional de Rectores (Conrae) of Costa Rica reported that Central American women are the most affected by unemployment.

Development in the country may depend on society’s willingness to collectively work toward much-needed reform.

Paraguayan senator Juan Bartolomé Ramírez is pushing for a law that would help ex-convicts reintegrate into society.

Festivities began on the first Saturday of February in Lima, Peru, with the city’s mayor, Jorge Muñoz, and Minister of Production, Raúl Pérez Reyes, there to celebrate the Day of Pisco Sour, a white brandy made only from grapes grown in Peru.