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Latin America and the Caribbean
Debt sustainability

Buying time

Argentina has dodged a bullet with a debt restructuring deal – for now

Buen Vivir

The good life

The indigenous development concept of Buen Vivir aims to ensure material, social and spiritual satisfaction for all

Depression

Confronting the disease

Depression afflicts 12 million Brazilians, proportionately more than anywhere else in Latin America

Schools

Failing grades

Education in Brazil suffers from low funding and insufficient appreciation for teachers

Distance learning

Failing grades

Chile’s teachers give low grades for the early results of online classes for schoolchildren

Social psychology

Collective trauma

Every crisis leaves deep scars in the memory of the affected society

Propaganda

Nothing is true

Why populists depend on systematical disinformation

Populist governance

Lying about Brazil’s forests

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro falsely says deforestation is not a problem

Journalism

Working in fear

Journalists exposing crime and corruption in Guatemala work in an atmosphere of fear and impunity

Marginalisation

Small wellspring of hope

A non-profit organisation tries to bring hope into the lives of underprivileged children in Guatemala

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