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By Diego Lopez Marina January 24, 2025

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Science in Peru: The urgent need to promote research from childhood

Outside the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Lima. Image courtesy of ANDINA.

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Interview with a Peru campesino rights activist: “There is a tremendous absence of government here”

By Michael Krumholtz - March 29, 2018

Mining business association warns of a new “wave of violence” against mining operations in Peru

By Diego Lopez Marina - November 21, 2022

Peru’s former Prime Minister Betssy Chávez arrested, accused of rebellion and conspiracy

By Diego Lopez Marina - June 29, 2023

LATIN AMERICA REPORTS: THE PODCAST

Latin America Reports: The Podcast

Latin America Reports: The Podcast is an inside look into the process our journalists go through to report on the top stories in the region

Marcela Torres is the former CEO of Hola Code, a Mexican social enterprise that provides software development training for refugees and migrants who have returned to Mexico after having lived in the U.S. She was recently named winner of the ‘Entrepreneur’ category in the list of Latin America’s top innovators under the age of 35 published by MIT Technology Review. In honour of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science earlier this month, we interviewed Torres about being a female CEO of a tech company in Latin America, a region lacking support and funding for women working in STEM.

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Women in STEM in Latin America

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Meet the teenage indigenous activist fighting climate change

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Audio Article: Uber’s departure from Colombia sparks debate over app regulation

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Special: Protests in Colombia

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