—Researched and written by Anna Kebler— The tradition of the Quema del Diablo, or Burning of the Devil, takes place in Guatemala every December 7 at 6:00 p.m., the eve of the feast of the Immaculate Conception. Effigies of the devil and material that ceased to be useful to the home is ignited in a

As has been done for 486 years, millions of people came to Tepeyac with happy hearts and full of faith in order to worship Tonantzin-Guadalupe.

Thirty-five-year-old, Colombian feminist Catalina Ruiz Navarro, also known as “Catalinapordios” in the virtual world, has revolutionized the feminist movement through a series of short videos that combat stereotypes and speak with Latin American millennial language.

The Under Secretary of Human Rights, Lorena Fries, indicated that the average Chilean, among the elderly and the less educated, is racist, classist, and homophobic, but they are all things that are changing thanks to the younger people.

The presence of homeless people with chronic mental illness has been decreasing, with the implementation of a comprehensive protection program run by the Dirección de Salud Mental del Ministerio de Salud (Directorate of Mental Health of the Ministry of Health) and the Despacho de la Primera Dama (Office of the First Lady).

In Ecuador, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or intersex (LGBTI) groups face a battle online as well as off.

November 25th marked the International Day of the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Although NGOs, the Secretary of Health (Miguel Mayo) and the Secretary of Housing and Land Use Planning (Mario Etchelecu) all agree that this squatter settlement poses a problem for public health, many Calle 50 residents feel otherwise, that this is their home.

After the beginning of the Raulist reforms in Cuba between 2008 and 2016, “the total health personnel has fallen by more than 22%.”

In all 887 cases, girls under the age of 15 giving birth in Paraguay in 2016, experienced psychological and physical effects that are now being addressed by the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (CLADEM).