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By Diego Lopez Marina August 22, 2022

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Alleged illegal miners dynamite transmission towers at Peru’s La Poderosa mine

About half a million soles was found in a suitcase on the day of the arrest of those investigated in this case. Photos: Public Ministry

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Hedge fund to sue Peru for $1.3 billion over agrarian bonds

By Colin Post - February 3, 2016

Mercury from illegal mining prompts health emergency in Peru

By Colin Post - May 23, 2016

Transport workers’ protest strands thousands in north Lima

By Colin Post - August 23, 2016

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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