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Kat Dunn

Abortions Across Latin America Rising Despite Illegality and Risks - 0 views

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    This article discusses the views and reality of abortions happening in the hospitals and behind the scenes in Latin America. Many different issues are brought up on abortion, such as that of religious and health, showing various opinions. The article also talks about possible solutions through sex education and birth control and also the cultural reality of these solutions.
Kat Dunn

Latin America Weighs Less Punitive Path to Curb Drug Use - 0 views

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    This article talks about the changes in policies for certain Latin American countries towards drug consumption. Countries such as Argentina and Mexico are looking to decriminalize drugs as step towards a solution. Many Latin American governments see the United State's way of dealing with drug use as having major negative effects and causing more problems then it is fixing.
Kat Dunn

In Study on Children's Welfare, Latin America Is Most Improved - 0 views

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    Written in 2002, this article talks about improved changes made to children in Latin America in the way of health and education. However, these slight advancements have been met with many new challenges such as the spread of HIV/AIDS and domestic violence. The UN has become very involved in this problem and working on its solution as in many of these developing countries, children make up a great part of the population.
Jordan Costello

LATIN AMERICA: "Sexuality Is an Essential Part of Humanity" - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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      This article relates to our course because it talks about sexuality, and how it is part of human nature to express it. However, in Latin America, people are not able to express their sexual rights due to poverty, gender inequality, and inequality among social classes and ethnic groups.
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    it talks about the sex in latin america and the lack of sex education there. It talks about places in latin america where sex is very prevelant and it talks about solutions to help bring sex education to latin america.
Kat Dunn

Gender and Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol-Related Problems in Latin America and the Ca... - 0 views

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    This article talks about the role of alcohol and substance abuse and its affects on Latin America and the Caribbean. Social, political, religious beliefs are all topics of this article as it talks about the problems and solutions of this important issue.
Courtney Connors

Guatemala's 'Femicide' Crisis (SB#4) - 0 views

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  • violence against women - termed "femicide"
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  • Gang-related violence has increased sharply here in recent years, amid an increase in drug-trafficking activity.
  • females are often killed simply because of their gender.
  • raped and killed
  • She was only three-years-old
  • justice imposed by the state is non-existent
  • Those who dare challenge the power of men in Guatemalan society often pay with their lives and only two per cent of crimes against women are solved.
  • We are a society that has gotten used to death
  • Women are not seen as great contributors to the country, so violence against them seems to be acceptable
  • femicide is often carried out with "shocking brutality"
  • absence of state guarantees
  • In April 2008, Guatemala passed a law against femicide, which officially recognised it as a punishable crime
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    The article entitled "Guatemala's 'Femicide' Crisis" seeks to explain the implications of the unnecessary and brutal mass killings occurring amongst women in Guatemala mostly by male gangs. Because the killings have exceeded such an unusual extent, it has been deemed a "Femicide", otherwise known as a "Gendercide" or a genocide directed mainly against females. The ages of girls or women discussed in this article being raped, beaten, and murdered range from three year old toddlers to middle aged women. Not only do gangs of men perform these acts for no reason other to establish masculinity within their affinity groups. Moreover, the law enforcement agencies are so corrupt that it was said, "justice imposed by the state is non-existent" and "only two per cent of crimes against women are solved." This article seeks to establish the problem that is still going on even after the forty-year civil war while other chosen articles are determined to look for solutions.
Sam Obstfeld

Latin American Herald Tribune - 40% of Guatemala's Elderly Living in Poverty - 0 views

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    This article discusses the notion of poverty and violence within the Guatemalan society. Currently, there are at least 900,000 residents, all above the age of 60 who are living on the dirty, impoverished streets of Guatemalan cities. Although the government has proposed solutions to the overwhelming amount of poverty and economic turmoil, there has been little progress in recent years.
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    This site reports a recent study of the living standards for Guatemalans. In the past few years, the rates of poverty, crime, and malnutrition have skyrocketed alarmingly. The hardest hit are the elderly and the children. In order to combat this, Guatemala is instituting benefit programs to give welfare to the elderly.
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