Víctor Cáceres Encina wrote in ABCColor of Asunción that seven of Paraguay’s sixteen prisons are overcrowded, with Tacumbú Penitentiary in the worst shape, according to a recent report by the Mecanismo Nacional de Prevención de Torturas.  Tacumbú is 1,605 beyond capacity, followed by the prison of Ciudad del Este, which has 692 more inmates than

Prensa Libre of Guatemala City related how a group of Guatemalan girls asked their congress to pass a law raising the minimum age for marriage to eighteen,

El Comerico of Lima reported that despite the priority that the government of Ollanta Humala has given the concept of social inclusion, Perú dropped three positions and placed seventh in Latin America according to the Social Inclusion Index 2013 of Americas Quarterly magazine. 

El Siglo of Panama City reported that passengers waiting for the bus in the 24 of December township often have to do it standing in raw sewage.

In Proceso Magazine Sabina Berman asked “what do the teachers want?”  This was something neither the

Isabel Becerril disclosed in El Financiero of Mexico City that in Mexico “informal” employees earn 40%

PáginaSIETE of La Paz registered the results of a national survey of safety in Venezuela in which 36%

La Tercera of Santiago.  According to data from the Seventh National Youth Survey of Chile, 16% of youth

According to Fohla de São Paulo, gay advertising has yet to come out of the closet in Brazil.  A recent

La Jornada of Mexico City reported that the Cuban government has extended the list of trades that can