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Violeta Chamorro: A Woman Who Fought for Peace in Nicaragua

After defeating Daniel Ortega at the polls in February 1990, she became the first elected woman president in the Americas.

Another university student warns, amid the advance of dollarization, that the country “also belongs to those of us who don’t have dollars”.

Santa Catarina, Brazil has already eliminated open dumps, although it is ignored if all of them have been cleaned up.

“Nothing ever comes to the ration store. We’re living off the small private businesses, off hot dogs that cost 450 pesos.”

A group of them are now struggling to adapt to a bittersweet process that still moves them: the joy of having found their families again.

Two doctors said that the bank told them it did not have the foreign currency to pay them what they were owed for their work in Angola.

“We need to withdraw more and more, and the banks are giving less and less,” lamented a frustrated citizen about inflation.

Women of the Guatemalan highlands are training as solar energy technicians, breaking down barriers of machismo, illiteracy and poverty.

“We were called in to unload the rice, but the people on the ship won’t hand it over until they see the money.”

Students have come forward with reports of institutional repression & intimidation aimed at preventing them from joining an academic strike.