The recently decreed Youth Law and the controversial discussion around it highlights the difficulties that the young population has coping with poverty, lack of opportunities, violence, insecurity, and the lack of education and information on sexuality. This law is an attempt to help the state take responsibility for its migrating and struggling youth.

The economic downturn due to softening markets for primary commodities is to blame. 

The taxi drivers in Colombia are having problems with people who use Uber and Uber X and they’re beginning to take the law into their own hands. Former Vice President Francisco Santos said his daughter was a victim of persecution by a group of taxi drivers when trying to use the Uber service.

The epidemiological documents of 2015 were finally published on the official website of the Venezuelan Ministry of health; but they were incomplete, only reaching until the first week of July 2015.

International experts will meet in the Ecuadorian capital to discuss issues related to the processes of construction and operation of the metros in heritage sites.

In the heart of Central Havana hangs a large poster of the image of the military-president, Raúl Castro, with a quote from one of his promising speeches: “Those who are committed to demonize, criminalize and prosecute the self-employed chose a path that in addition to mean, is ludicrous and untenable. Cuba counts them as one

The Armed Forces are authorized to use signal blockers radio (BSR’s) during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio 2016. The measure, approved by the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) also extends to so-called Law and Order Guarantee Operations (referring to the demonstrations and riots).

Although the growing friendly relations between the US and Cuba have brought new money and massive amounts of tourists to Havana, many black Cubans are worried that it has also caused an increase in racial inequality and a widening wage gap. But outright discrimination is hardly the problem anymore; nowadays the issue is that non-white

Local organizations that make up the World Bike Forum (WBF) gathered at the presidential palace in Chile to deliver the National Cyclist Proposal, a list of 300 pro-cycling measures “with the end goal of strengthening this vehicle as a key tool to improving the people’s quality of life.”

Some 50,000 Guatemalans went on a motorcycle pilgrimage from Guatemala City to the Basilica of Esquipulas in the traditional Caravan of Zorro, a distance of about 138 miles, to ask the revered Black Christ for blessings, family stability, and peace in Guatemala.