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By Diego Lopez Marina August 10, 2022

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Boluarte enacts amnesty law in Peru despite strong criticism from human rights groups

Yenifer Paredes, President Pedro Castillo’s sister-in-law. Image courtesy of Peru’s Congress.

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Fires break out at two mines in southern Peru amid protests by local residents

By Diego Lopez Marina - June 8, 2022

Former President Alejandro Toledo’s corruption sentence underscores “distrust” of public officials: Peru’s ad hoc prosecutor in Odebrecht case

By Diego Lopez Marina - November 1, 2024

Human Rights Watch condemns Congress’ decision to oust members of Peru’s National Board of Justice

By Diego Lopez Marina - March 14, 2024

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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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