* Chile: Tensions between Chile’s government and the indigenous Mapuche are near the boiling point after the Bachelet administration controversially invoked a Dirty War-era law against violence.* Latin America: According to an Inter-American Development Bank study Brazil has Latin America’s worst gender and racial gap while the margin in Bolivia and Guatemala is nearly zero.
* Mexico: Tens of thousands of Mexicans protested yesterday against the federal government’s closing of state-run energy firm Luz y Fuerza.
* Cuba: A U.S. federal judge reduced the sentence of one of the “Cuban Five” convicted over a decade ago of being a Cuban spy.
Image- Santiago Times ("Mapuche flag.")
Online Sources- Guardian UK, csmonitor.com, LAHT, The Latin Americanist, New York Times
These are the everyday issues we can get in those countries I think that the administration of them is not good, they have to make some changes.
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