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Income from wages in Latin America has fallen by 19.3%, compared with a global average of 10.7%. ... → Latin America’s new poor; From the October 10th 2020 edition.
As many countries in Latin America enforce social distancing measures in order to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, many are deprived of basic subsistence. From Mexico to Argentina and ...
Latin America has been urbanizing with shocking speed over the past few decades. One type of growth pattern has been the informal settlements, often built on hills, that the poor occupy illegally.
Some of the first coronavirus cases in Latina America came from the elite after travel, but what worries experts is the spread among the poor, living in unsanitary conditions and working every day.
A jump in food prices across Latin America is bringing added misery to the poorest families hit by the coronavirus pandemic and increasing the chance of social unrest. Food and beverage costs ...
In Latin America and the Caribbean stories like Vanessa’s are common. Some 11% of households are led by a single parent, almost always a mother, according to estimates by the UN . That is above ...
Photograph by Terry Winn Micheline Dahm-Schiltges and her husband, Jacques Dahm, traveled to Peru and Bolivia from their home in Luxembourg 18 years ago because they wanted to experience another ...
Colombian-born star Shakira is organizing a Live Aid-style concert to benefit the needy on her continent. "We want this to be an event that brings world attention to poverty in Latin America ...
COMMENTARY Vaccine tourism underscores the culture of privilege in Latin America — and how it haunts Latin Americans who are shut out of it.
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