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Inequality

Shantytowns and favelas: a century of urban informality in Latin America

For over a century, informal settlements have shaped Latin American cities. This article explores their origins, challenges, and future in urban planning.

As democracies erode, Latin America’s billionaires grow richer

While inequality in Latin America rises, an elite of the ultra-rich accumulates power and wealth at the expense of weakening democracy.

Panama: What is behind the protests and what is at stake?

The country is currently experiencing a cycle of public dissatisfaction and institutional questioning that goes beyond the current situation, forcing us to look a little further back.

Health as a mirror of injustice: Social inequality kills

Life expectancy no longer depends on genes or luck. It depends on your zip code, your ethnicity, your income, your education, whether you live...

Between light and shadow: The slow march toward gender equality in the region

We must develop more robust legal frameworks, budget allocations with a gender perspective and public policies that truly aim to transform the structural conditions of inequality.

What does Milei’s government understand by inequality and private sector?

To bias and blur the contribution that the government's adjustment makes to the concentrated private sector and to omit the socioeconomic crisis that the country is going through is a political act, and a hypocritical policy.