The Day of the Farmer has been celebrated every year in Colombia since 1965.

Investigations into Susana Villarán and Luis Castañeda, former mayors of Lima, have brought to light corruption in the establishment of contracts that favored Rutas de Lima, a company that manages the tolls around Lima, leading to action by residents of both northern and southern districts in Lima against the high tolls.

Although one of the largest producers of food in the world, Argentina itself struggles with hunger and homelessness.

Since 2010, a number of schools in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, a rural province in northwestern Ecuador, have closed, leaving students to walk long distances in precarious situations to reach the remaining schools.

The Comisión Especial para la Transformación del Sector Educación de Honduras held a public hearing in which 400 representatives from non-governmental organizations, churches, academic institutions, parent associations, and other sectors of society came together to demand continued access to public education in Honduras.

On Monday, May 27, marches were organized in many cities in Argentina in support of the proposed legislation for the Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo (IVE).

The Historical Archive of the extinct National Police (AHPN) was discovered by chance in 2005 and contains records of 116 years of Guatemala’s history, including 70 million police records.

Paraguay is one of two landlocked countries in South America with a variety of indigenous groups that call this country home.

According to Maritza Velásquez, director of the association for household and domestic workers (Atrahdom), “domestic work [in Guatemala] is one of the most vulnerable branches. It’s a form of modern slavery.”

Ecuador has the chance to join the many countries that have legalized same-sex marriage.