Pneumonia, heart attacks, and car accidents have been among the top causes of death in Ecuador for at least a decade. The leading cause was heart failure, which then became pneumonia in 2003.

On September 1, 2013 El Salvador’s President Sánchez Cerén issued a speech in which he promised to prioritize the education budget if elected president. He claimed he would increase the budget to 6% of the country’s GDP by the end of his five year term. However, in 2016 he will be 0.1 GDP points further

Brazil became more equal in 2014 than ever before, according to a survey released by the IBGE (the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). The cause was the increase in the income of the poorest segment of the population, while the income of the richest of society fell.

The Constitutional Court recently made a historic decision to allow egalitarian adoption, reiterating that we all have the same rights.

Though there are many inequalities in Mexico, the most intense of them falls within the child population. While children living in Nuevo León and Mexico City score a 6/10 with regard to access to children’s rights, those in Guerrero barely reach 2.8/10.

The Civic Council of Residents of La Antigua Guatemala, asked the Ministry of Culture to initiate the addition of this city to the List of World Heritage in Danger in order to then request emergency state assistance to the threatened well-being of the area.

The Day of the Ñatitas is a unique holiday celebrated in Bolivia on November 8th.

Along with being one of the happiest places in the world, Costa Rica is also among the healthiest.

The list of traditional Panamanian dishes is long: gallo pinto, guacho, yucca cake, potato salad, rice with chicken, sancocho stew, and tamales are just some of the must-haves on the culinary radar. The latter three, however, have been identified by experts as the most popular overall.

Infectious diseases like malaria, dengue fever, AIDS, and tuberculosis claim the lives of 4 million people every year, plaguing the indigenous communities in particular.