The Interior Ministry and the Taxi Union agreed to implement a panic button in taxis, but the Automobile Union with Taximeters and Operators (Suatt) opposes the agreement. They claim that the button won’t help many drivers, since taxi demand is not as high after 11:00 pm, when the button would be needed.

Although there is a new state training program in Chile, the much-needed, but thousands of vacant medical positions will not be filled until 2018. Experts allude to structural flaws and absence of long-term public policies as the culprit for the lack of specialists, so the government is working on a “radical change” in its involvement

The business pyramid continues to reflect the inequality gaps. In El Salvador specifically, at the base of the structure 64% of micro and small companies are led by women, 28% lead medium-sized businesses, and only 8% of the large companies are headed by women. While these entrepreneurs face inequality gaps in the business world, they are

With a campaign of opening up greater opportunities for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Transsexual community (LGBTT), José Luis Sánchez Araujo, better known as “Ruby,” was recently sworn in as councilor of the city of Guanajuato.

Street vendors exist in almost all the cities of Colombia and of the world, but make their money in a space that should belong to everyone. Has this become a legal, ethical and economic dilemma of big cities? The Enrique Peñalosa administration of Colombia has proposed taking back the public space in Bogotá and for

At the end of a road lined with trash fires and informal housing where sewage runs between shacks is “a startling destination: a gleaming, self-contained community about as clean and orderly as a US suburb, a utopian community of 15,000 in the middle of one of the world’s most economically ravaged countries.” 

María José Coni, 22, and Marina Menegazzo, 21, dreamt of leaving their hometown of Mendoza to backpack through South America. But that dream was cut short in the resort town of Montañita, Ecuador, where they were killed. Their deaths have caused a stir in their own country of Argentina and throughout Latin America on the

The 37th International Book Fair of the Palacio de Mineria (FILPM) was held from February 17th to 29th, exhibiting around 600 publishing stamps and 1,525 activities, including youth days and programs presented by Chihuahua state guest. The official count of attendees was 152,129 people in 13 days, almost 10,000 more than last year.

In 2015, the yearly average for Ecuadorian milk consumption per person was 4.67 gallons – the lowest figure recorded since 2010, according to figures from Dairy Industry Center (CIL). This number is more than half a gallon less than the annual figure of 2014. The cause may be that Ecuadorians are suffering high costs and

Immediately after his friends were kidnapped by a group of masked men under the Monument to the Divine Savior of the World at the beginning of the Salvadoran Civil War, Cuki Alarcon began visiting police stations trying to locate them. He even hired a lawyer to help. But the dozen missing were a group of