Between 1996 and 2000, former President Alberto Fujimori oversaw a family planning program under which more than 280,000 women and men were sterilized in Peru — mainly in poor, rural areas. Decades later, victims are still awaiting justice.
In 2021, an Argentinian organization called "Mujeres Que no Fueron Tapa" ("Women Who Weren't in the Cover") launched the hashtag #HermanaSoltaLaPanza, which can be translated to mean #SisterFreeTheBelly, to start a discussion about body image.
Topolansky’s resignation is meaningful to many Uruguayans, especially Uruguayan women in politics, because Topolansky was a pioneer in this sphere in the country.
On July 6, a diverse group of women in Uruguay presented a proposed law to the country’s parliament that would create a standard guideline to establish the same set of sizes for all clothes.
The feminist and the LGTBQIA+ movements in Latin America have started to criticize how Spanish and Portuguese express so much systemic prejudice and misogyny and are proposing changes to make them more inclusive.
On December 30, Argentina’s Senate approved legislation that not only legalized abortion until the 14th week of pregnancy, but also made the procedure free of charge.
Will a new Netflix documentary on the history of rock in Latin America give rockeras their proper tribute?
As the United States struggles to reaffirm its raison d'être, can the prospect of transformative change in a re-invigorated South American body politic become a new beacon for democracy?