In the last 50 years this region has aged at a similar pace to Europe over two centuries. There are two crucial factors in its age-related transformation: the fall in the birth rate and increased life expectancy at birth. Covid-19 has also had an effect on life expectancy.
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Neoliberalism, a model that is difficult to finish off
Capitalism’s economic crisis, so closely bound to its own nature, had its most recent manifestation in the crisis of 2008 which, apparently, has still not been overcome as the official voices of capital and its administrators, the affected governments, claimed. Juan Diego García The pandemic and especially the […]
Immigrants in the jungle: in between life and death
From January to August this year, 70,376 foreigners irregularly entered Panama through the Darién National Park, with monthly increases that set a record of 25,361 last August, more than a third of all the arrivals to this region at this time. “I am in despair”, is the first phrase […]
Argentina: They want democracy prisoner or dead
Recently, representatives of over 40 organisations defending human rights claimed that Argentinian democracy, re-established 39 years ago, is once again at risk. Glenda Arcia During 2022 the Argentinian vice-president, Cristina Fernández, suffered threats, abuse, an attempted assassination and a court conviction, events which moved citizens, organisations and leaders […]
USA: A polarised society
It was a year in which the midterm election results revealed the growing polarisation of the country’s two major political camps, and highlighted the alarming contradictions that have existed in US society for some time. Ivette Fernández When Joe Biden arrived at the White House in January […]
















