A recent reform in the Costa Rican criminal code established that hate crimes will now be punished with prison sentences ranging from 20 to 35 years.

Already marginalized residents of São Paulo, pushed out of their area of the city dubbed “Cracolândia” (literally Crackland), are facing further segregation at the hands of the city’s leadership.

From 2019 to 2022, Mexico’s score on the Happiness Index drastically decreased.

Food insecurity in Honduras is “worsening” due to the rise in world food prices and the war between Russia and Ukraine.

On Wednesday, March 30, the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) gave a report on the “Estimation of Poverty” in Uruguay in 2021.

Filters that finetune facial features, offered by the world’s social media platforms, are “motivating racism and plastic surgeries amongst young people.”

Calderón, a northern town within Ecuador’s capital, has “a high density of housing, intense vehicular traffic, and very few green areas for recreation.”

Prisoners in El Salvador began this Thursday to erase graffiti that violent gangs use to mark the territory in which they operate, reported the director of Penal Centers, Osiris Luna.

With Evangelical Christianity on the rise across Brazil, religious leaders and organizations are becoming increasingly involved in the nation’s political scene.

Rio de Janeiro’s police force is reportedly using a “flawed” photo recognition system that is “unleashing hell” on innocent Black Brazilians, with successive judicial proceedings and wrongful imprisonments.