Miriam Poma stands in the electromechanical workshop for high-end vehicles that she co-owns in the city of El Alto, adjacent to La Paz, Bolivia. In the past, she…
Read more Bolivian Women Fight Prejudice to Be Accepted as MechanicsA view of the Altos de Florida neighborhood in Bogotá, Colombia. Overcoming poverty is the first of the Sustainable Development Goals, and in the Latin American and Caribbean…
Read more Latin America Is Lagging in Its Homework to Meet the SDGsSara López (C) and other members of the Regional Indigenous and Popular Council of Xpujil are seen here in a photo from 2020, while campaigning against the environmental…
Read more Mexico Turns to Military EntrepreneursOpinion by Bibbi Abruzzini (cartagena, colombia) Monday, September 04, 2023 Inter Press Service CARTAGENA, Colombia, Sep 04 (IPS) – In the midst of a complex web of crises, spanning…
Read more Civil Society Organizations Unite to Urge Public Development Banks to Change the Way Development Is DoneIf production decreases due to El Niño, there will be less food availability, and the income of the most vulnerable households that live and eat on what they…
Read more New Challenges in Agriculture in the Face of the El Nihenomenon“Migration is a right,” read the handkerchiefs held by two women at a demonstration in the Argentine capital for migrants’ rights. At left is Natividad Obeso, a Peruvian…
Read more Vulnerable Women Suffer the Worst Face of Discrimination in ArgentinaMarisol and Misael Menjívar pose next to the biodigester installed in March in the backyard of their home in El Corozal, a rural settlement located near Suchitoto in…
Read more Biodigesters Light Up Clean Energy Stoves in Rural El SalvadorOpinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Monday, July 24, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 24 (IPS) – At a meeting with European and Latin American leaders…
Read more Brazil Back on the Green TrackLigoria Felipe dos Santos poses for a photo on her agroecological farm that mixes corn, squash, fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs. She is part of the women’s movement…
Read more ‘Passion Seeds’ Fertilize Brazil’s Semiarid NortheastSofía Quispe, the president of Ecorecicladoras de La Paz, finds a good haul of paper and cardboard in a municipal dumpster at the end of Avenida 6 de…
Read more Women Recyclers in Bolivia Build Hope, Demand RecognitionThe shortages of days in the classroom and teachers, and the poverty of their schools and living conditions, provide for a very poor education for Venezuela’s children and…
Read more Venezuela’s Educational System Heading Towards State of Total CollapseA view of the Canoas Wind Farm, owned by Neoenergia, the Brazilian subsidiary of Spain’s Iberdrola. Several wind farms with hundreds of turbines have already been built in…
Read more The Dark Side of Wind and Solar Farms as Sustainable Energy in BrazilAerial view of the town of Soufriere in the south of Saint Lucia. Sea level rise is threatening coastal areas of small island developing states (SIDS) in the…
Read more UN Weather Agency calls for Robust Early Warning Systems as Latin America and the Caribbean Brace for More Extreme Weather EventsCredit: Silvia Rodríguez/AFP via Getty Images Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Wednesday, July 05, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 05 (IPS) – When Guatemalans went…
Read more Guatemala Clings to Democratic PromiseWhile cooking on one side of her wooden tin-roofed house, Mercedes Marcahuachi describes her long day’s work to meet the needs of her household and of the soup…
Read more Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their WellbeingEronildes da Silva proudly stands next to a bunch of bananas on his farm, whose large size is the result, he says, of the effective fertilizer of reusing…
Read more Water Harvesting Boosts Agriculture in Brazil’s Semiarid NortheastPerla Venegas is one of 1444 female bus drivers in the surface public transport network in Santiago, Chile, which aims at gender inclusion and offers job stability and…
Read more Women Suffer Harassment and Discrimination on Chile’s Public TransportLucineide Cordeiro loads manure from her two oxen and two calves into the “sertanejo” biodigester that produces biogas for cooking and biofertilizer for her varied crops on the…
Read more Biodigesters Boost Family Farming in BrazilThe expansion towards the mountains of the coastal city of Ensenada, in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California, stresses the water supply, which is scarce in this…
Read more Mexico Needs to Step Up Treatment and Reuse of Water to Address CrisisMartina Santa Cruz, a peasant farmer from the village of Sacllo in the southern Peruvian Andes highlands department of Cuzco, is pleased with her remodeled kitchen where a…
Read more Healthy Homes – A Right of Rural Families in Peru
