The Encuesta Condiciones de Vida (ECV) showed a rise in poor households from 48.1% in 2014 to 81.8% in 2016 and that 350,000 people fell below the poverty line within one year.

Trash has become such a problem in Valparaíso, Chile, that the Ministry of Health has begun legal proceedings against the Municipality.

Results from a study conducted by the Brazilian Agência de Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS) and the Ministério da Saúde show that obesity has increased among Brazilians with health insurance.

Live electronic music returned to Buenos Aires after a 10-month hiatus with a festival in Mandarine Park de Punta Carrasco.

Mexico is being confronted with several economic issues, with more than 24 million citizens – half of all active workers in the country – receiving less than the equivalent of two minimum wages.

The Cuban government has effectively ended the law of supply and demand that regulated the country’s private transportation industry since the mid-90s.

The Ministry of Transport and Communication in Peru has recently issued a standard for businesses selling digital technology to begin the transition from analog television to digital television in all homes.

A historical precedent was set for sex workers in Nicaragua where the Ministry of Labor ruled in favor of workers’ rights for a woman who had been fighting for them for years.

The construction of the Museo de la Revolución Democrática y Cultural, which features the life of the current Bolivian president, Evo Morales, has resulted in a series of criticisms that label the president as egocentric.

Countless and persisting cases have shown that corruption is not an isolated issue in Colombia, rather it constitutes a series of profoundly rooted cultural tendencies that affect the deeper moral codes not only of the political sphere, but of society as a whole.