Tag: Latin

Latin America celebrates diversity with pride parades

STORY: :: June 29, 2024 :: Mexico City, Mexico :: Pride parades across Latin America celebrate diversity and inclusion :: Santiago, Chile :: Lima, Peru :: In Peru, this comes days after the country stops calling trans people mentally ill ::“It’s a fight for our dreams, a fight for respect, for tolerance and equality. I […]

Colombia Emerges as the Wealth Hub of Latin America

Colombia Emerges as the Wealth Hub of Latin America In defiance of misconceptions and global trends over the past five years, the number of millionaires in Colombia has grown by 39%, whereas worldwide they declined by 0.3%. Despite a global recession, regional economic volatility and Colombia’s internal instability and drug wars, the number of millionaires […]

How two very different Latin American leaders reveal the region’s growing populism

Insights from Central Podcast, Americas Quarterly, Bloomberg, and Atlantic Council The News Days before leftist Claudia Sheinbaum became the new president of Mexico, another populist leader was sworn in in El Salvador for the second time, right-leaning leader Nayib Bukele. On paper, Sheinbaum and Bukele differ greatly in ideology, but their populist politics — promising […]

40 Latin American religious sisters to receive degrees from Saint Mary’s

May 1—This Saturday, May 4, as Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota celebrates the graduation of the Class of 2024, it will also celebrate the conferring of degrees upon the first cohort of religious sisters who are a part of the university’s Latin American Sisters Initiative. The sisters have been enrolled in the university’s Health and […]