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By Diego Lopez Marina May 17, 2022

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Peru declares State of Emergency in Lima and Callao amid rising crime rates

Representatives of the National Association of Journalists, the Press and Society Institute (IPYS) and the Peruvian Press Council protest at the doors of Peru’s Congress. Image courtesy of @ANP_periodistas via Twitter.

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Latin America’s global tech conference takes place in October on an idyllic island

By Frances Jenner - September 25, 2018

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Peru’s Congress votes no-confidence, forces cabinet resignation

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Latin America Reports: The Podcast is an inside look into the process our journalists go through to report on the top stories in the region

Marcela Torres is the former CEO of Hola Code, a Mexican social enterprise that provides software development training for refugees and migrants who have returned to Mexico after having lived in the U.S. She was recently named winner of the ‘Entrepreneur’ category in the list of Latin America’s top innovators under the age of 35 published by MIT Technology Review. In honour of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science earlier this month, we interviewed Torres about being a female CEO of a tech company in Latin America, a region lacking support and funding for women working in STEM.

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