As the headline in the news remind us daily: immigration in the U.S. is an important policy topic of today. There is a high dependence on the U.S. as haven for refugees and people seeking a better life.
COVID-19 is impacting nations around the globe. Governments’ policies to prevent the spread of the virus are challenged while the number of deaths and contagions increases every day at a fast pace. In Latin America, Ecuador has become the epicenter of COVID-19, and the country is suffering a devastating reality; families are unable to bury their relatives, and even worse, some have to remain with the corpses for more than 48 hours due to the collapse of the public services.
Volunteer Tourism has emerged in the past two decades as an increasingly popular alternative form of travel.
Coronavirus is a family of viruses that more commonly spread from animals to humans, being classified as a zoonotic disease. COVID-19 is a novel type of coronavirus, which is not only is zoonotic but also can spread from human to human. Its symptoms vary and can be similar to those of common cold and, on the other end, to severe illnesses featuring pneumonia (WHO, 2020).
Through decades of activism by feminist groups and national actors, Latin America has made advances in its representation of women in political positions.
The latest United States act of aggression towards Iran has made many fearful that we are on the brink of another arbitrary war in the Middle
It is a fact that today, younger people in Latin America have several options and more opportunities to enroll in higher education. However, it does not necessarily mean that these youngers are being instructed under parameters of high quality in education.
The question of identity among refugees in President Trump’s modern America is a significant area of concern as displacement levels increase.
Latitude is defined as “a measurement on a globe or map of location north or south of the Equator” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2018). A unit of measurement created by the Ancient Greeks using astronomical observations, latitude was created to aid sailors in navigation. Thousands of years later, just as Medieval Christians believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, so too did European cartographers believe that the center of Christianity was positioned higher on the map of the earth than other ‘heathen’ countries.
Whenever reports of misogyny hit the front page, it is likely that readers first think of discrimination in the workplace or, in its form that yields the most tragic results, femicide. Of course, Latin America is far from absent of femicide; Guatemala is the country with the third highest rate of femicide on the planet. Between 2014 and 2016, there were 2,264 violent deaths of women in the country, and of those, 611 cases were reported as femicide (Johnson 2018).
