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Cualquier momento es bueno para redondearse un dinero extra, especialmente en tiempo de elecciones. Foto: Kira Kariakin. Abstract: In Venezuela it’s common to complement the monthly income with small side enterprises, a practice known as “killing tigers” (matar tigres), but for some it’s a way of living. Currently 40,6% of […]

Abstract: European migrations since the sixteenth century provoked a world wide movement of men, women, objects, fabrics, ideas, fashion. In colonial Bolivia indians were prohibited from using Spanish clothings in order to maintain the social order. However, in the eighteenth century women from indigenous descent but already mixed raced transformed […]

Brazil is a country in a great development and this sucess is linked with increase brazilian women participation in economic and political process. This is a brief report about these women’s force.

Any conversation about free trade in South America inevitably includes some comment on Mercosur, a South American regional group constituted in 1991 and once hailed as the “next European Union” – clearly in a time when comparison with the EU was still seen as a symbol of hope and success! […]

The Salvadoran state is like a father who has many children. It is in debt, has limited wages, has maxed out its credit cards and overdrawn its checking account, and while it gets loans to restructure its debt, it always comes back for another overdraft. Father State thinks he’s doing well. He […]