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UNDP confirms: The gap between the rich and the poor is widening

The pandemic widened the gap between the rich and the poor in Latin America, as confirmed by the recent 2021 Regional Human Development Report «Trapped: High Inequality and Low Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean» was launched in a virtual presentation by the United Nations Program to Development (UNDP)

Bolivia: What is the «Tear Gas» case about? (+Jeanine Áñez and Lenín Moreno)

In late May, Arturo Murillo, former Minister of Government of the de facto administration of Jeanine Áñez in Bolivia (November 2019-November 2020) was detained in the US

Delta strain: What is known about the covid-19 variant that concerns vaccine manufacturers?

The variant of the coronavirus dubbed the ‘Delta’ strain and first registered in India in October last year, is spreading rapidly in several countries and is already dominant in some regions

Brazil: the terrible case of Kathlen Romeu, the pregnant young woman who died because of a stray bullet

Shots ring out in the Lins favela complex, in the north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but in the distance

Peru: How will the people defend Pedro Castillo’s victory?

Peru Libre’s leftist candidate, Pedro Castillo, finally won the second round of the presidential elections in Peru, defeating his contender, Keiko Fujimori, of the right-wing Fuerza Popular

Does Bolsonaro intend to gain the lost popularity with the Copa América?

President Jair Bolsonaro sees in Brazil’s Copa América, highly questioned in a country that is entering the third wave of the pandemic, an opportunity – albeit risky – to regain his lost popularity in order to try to reach the presidential elections of 2022 with a better face

Argentina: The indigenous resistance that still persists after seeing the ‘boats arrive’

«In South America we are all descendants of Europeans», affirmed in 2018 the then president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri

Peru: What can happen to Keiko Fujimori’s requests for annulment against 802 polling stations?

The presidential candidate of Fuerza Popular, the right-wing Keiko Fujimori, accused Peru Libre on Wednesday night of implementing systematic actions to break the popular will, a statement that was immediately rejected by the electoral authorities

En quoi consiste la «transformation de la police» de Duque en Colombie ?

Depuis 2019, plusieurs secteurs nationaux et internationaux ont appelé à la fin de la militarisation des manifestations en Colombie et ont dénoncé l’usage excessif de la force par les porteurs d’uniforme