Venezuela has emerged as a hotspot of medical tourism in the field of plastic surgery, a development that might help ameliorate the effects of the country’s ongoing economic crisis.

Judging by appearances, the first day of the new school year got off to a relatively normal start in Venezuela.

Over a quarter of Ecuadorians between 18 and 24 years of age are neither employed nor enrolled at a university or trade school.

According to Alcibiades Vásquez, Panama’s minister of social development, a quarter of his country’s population is now living below the poverty line.

Peru’s Comisión Interministerial de Asuntos Sociales (CIAS) approved the “Escalera del Bienestar” strategy which is a welfare mechanism intended to face poverty and social inequality in the urban areas of the country.

A recent report by the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics cited Uruguay as the country with the second-lowest maternal mortality in the continent, surpassed only by Canada.

Buenos Aires is a city of readers, books and bookstores. According to the World Forum of Cultural Cities (2015), it is the city with the most bookstores in the world – 25 per 100,000 inhabitants.

–Researched and written by Marina Dal Agnol The Supreme Court in Brazil created a precedent that decriminalized abortion up to the third month of pregnancy.

–Researched and written by Jessica Ramirez Femicides have become an increasing problem in Argentina, where every 30 hours a woman is murdered. Femicide rates in Argentina have been continuously rising during the last few years, with no signs of slowing down.

Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, FUNAI, criticized photos taken by Ricardo Stuckert, because they are considered to be an invasion of the Indigenous tribe’s privacy; the tribe chooses to live in isolation in the state of Acre.