The natural wealth of the Amazon contrasts with its impoverished population without access to many basic rights, such as sanitation, housing, health and welfare, among others. 

The new Penal Code hands out a 1-3 year prison sentence that can run 16 to 19 years, based upon aggravating circumstances for every caregiver subject to its reach. 

Guaná, with just four speakers, is one of the indigenous languages ​​most endangered in Paraguay, which faces the challenge of preserving its 20 native languages.  And legislation to guarantee the rights of women is not based on preference for “being a woman,” but for equal treatment of everyone. 

Obesity is a disease that continues to rise in Argentina, while Ecuador sees obesity and overweight citizens as its main health problem.  

Judge probes Guido Carlotto’s adopters, human rights groups demand justice for the disappearance of  Jorge Julio López on its eighth anniversary, and an appellate court upholds the arrest of five “Triple A” members. 

The anniversary of the 1973 military coup underlines that Chile is still a divided country, while a congressman is arrested for his role in the process, and the nation moves to repeal its amnesty law.  

The president of Colombia’s Congress issued a formal apology over lawmakers’ ties to a paramilitary group, victims of Colombia’s armed conflict urge bilateral ceasefire, and FARC says it is satisfied with the dynamics of the peace process. 

With seminars and research, a new program aims to explore the philosophy and politics of Ernesto Laclau, who died earlier this year. 

To those in Brazil who cling to the need for large coalitions of parties as the only way to govern effectively, recent events in Mexico provide an essential counterpoint. 

He wants to facilitate the revival of dialogue in Venezuela.