Abstract: Salvadoran society doesn’t have any problem with heavy drinking but is quite severe with tobacco consumption. Why is it that the country with most alcohol-related deaths worldwide celebrates alcohol consumption yet is quite intolerant with smokers? Regulations  and special taxes on both tobacco and liquor consumption are currently standing, […]

Abstract: Centralamericans believe that the rural misery portrayed by the media in the seventies is gone. Most peasants have left the countryside and now live in the cities or in the US, they assume, but this is not true. Governments have neglected health coverage – which is supposedly free and […]

Abstract: the causes of unemployment in Central America are in part related to low education and high levels of poverty. These factors form vicious cycles that are hard to break: if someone is poor, they are forced to leave school and start working from a very young age, reducing the […]

Abstract: In Bolivia traditional medicine is the most used by families both in the country and in the cities. It is not only cheaper but is accessible to everyone because it lies in the communities knowledge. This tradition is so important that their mediators or facilitators known as “yatiris” have […]

Abstract: I have two daughters. The older one was born in a public hospital, and the younger one in a private facility. My experiences in each case were so dramatically different that I’m still shocked when I remember them. Having money to pay private attention was the main difference. My […]