
In Lima, a proposal to erase femicide from Peru’s penal code has turned a legal debate into a national warning, as grieving families, feminist groups, and human rights advocates say the change would reward killers and silence victims once again.
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Across Latin America, far-right movements are using anti-feminist panic to reorganize politics, weaken equality institutions, attack sex education, and redirect social anger away from austerity, precarious work, violence, and the deep failures of neoliberal democracy.
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Hundreds of women in Havana rallied against the U.S. energy embargo, but the scene says more than that. It shows how Cuban women, and by extension many Latin American women, are still asked to absorb scarcity, defend dignity, and perform national endurance in public.
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A Brazilian defender’s punishment for sexist remarks after a heated loss reaches beyond one match, one referee, and one apology. It opens a harsher question for Latin America, where women in public authority still face scrutiny men often escape daily.
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Two producers in San Juan are betting women can reset reggaeton’s pecking order. On March six, their nineteen-track compilation, “La Liga Femenina,” arrives, led by Puerto Rican Ivy Queen and Spanish La Mala Rodríguez, featuring nineteen voices and no men.
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At the Berlinale, two Latin American filmmakers arrive with different tools and the same nerve. Brazil’s Grace Passô premieres her first feature about grief and family repair. Chile’s Maite Alberdi brings a documentary about motherhood pressure and punishment. Together they map what society asks of women.
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