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News August 2021
CURRENTLY @ LATINNO LATINNO Final Conference and Report After six years of intense work, the LATINNO project has officially ended this summer. To celebrate, we held a conference on June 24th and 25th to which we invited experts from across the globe to discuss some findings of the project and the usability of our data for future research. The event, which had almost 400 registrations, started with a keynote speech by Mark Warren, and was followed by three roundtables, held in ...
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LATINNO Final Report
Now it's officially released! Check out the final report written by Thamy Pogrebinschi with findings, trends, and recommendations from the LATINNO project. http://hdl.handle.net/10419/235143
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News June 2021
CURRENTLY @ LATINNO 30 Years of Democratic Innovation in Latin America Join us on June 24th and 25th for the closing conference of the LATINNO project! The event "Thirty Years of Democratic Innovation in Latin America" will celebrate the end of our project’s five-year cycle and its major product: a public database comprising 3,700 democratic innovations from 18 Latin American countries between 1990 and 2020. To celebrate our achievements, we have invited experts from across the globe ...
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News April 2021
CURRENTLY @ LATINNO Since the second wave of Covid-19 infections arrived in the region, several Latin American countries have been facing once again the difficult decision to impose lockdown measures. While vaccination continues to advance rather slowly in most countries, governments and civil society debate over how to balance the measures to contain the pandemic, on the one side, and measures to reduce the pervasive inequality in access to public services that has only worsened ...
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March News 2021
CURRENTLY @ LATINNO As the pandemic continues to impact lives and livelihoods around the world, the effects of COVID-19 triggered an unprecedented crisis in Latin America. Brazil, for example, surpassed 300,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, becoming the second country in the world to do so. And while many sectors of the population have been severely impacted by the situation, women in the region have been disproportionately affected. According to a report released by ECLAC, 56.9% of ...
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February News 2021
Currently @ LATINNO Vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 have launched in several Latin American countries. However, the uneven allocation of vaccines threatens to prolong the pandemic in the region. Efforts to guarantee equal access to vaccines are challenged both by the difficulties that regional governments are facing to secure enough doses and by corruption scandals. This month, irregularities and nepotism became evident in Peru, Argentina and Chile, where the early vaccination of several high-ranked public officials -skipping ...
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January News 2021
Currently @ LATINNO The new Covid-19 strains detected in the United Kingdom, South Africa and more recently in Brazil have aggravated the ongoing pandemic. Governments around the world are struggling to contain the spread of the virus and its new variants, and are imposing more restrictive measures facing second and third waves. In Latin America, the already fragile health systems continue to face a fierce pressure, which has led to a scarcity of intensive care unit ...
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December News 2020
Currently @ LATINNO This was a very active year for Latin America. Despite the pandemic, the region experienced important political events such as the presidential elections in the Dominican Republic and Bolivia, the national referendum in Chile, the institutional crisis in Peru, and the intense demonstrations in Guatemala. The Covid-19 outbreak challenged governments and fueled economic, political and social crises. The pandemic is expected to cause the most severe economic and social crisis in the last century in ...
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New Mapping: Innovations against COVID-19
Mapping Innovations vs. COVID-19 Since Covid-19 arrived in Latin America at the beginning of the year, the organized civil society has played a central role in promoting coordinated and innovative responses to the pandemic and its economic, social, political and public health challenges. Here at LATINNO, we have been following up on these responses, mapping more than 400 initiatives that have emerged since March in 18 countries in the region. In the following sections we present more information about the data ...
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November News 2020
Currently @ LATINNO In November, Latin America witnessed several disruptive political and social events. In Peru, the impeachment of ex-President Martín Vizcarra resulted in an institutional crisis that led to massive protests, forcing the immediate resignation of Manuel Merino as interim President. In Guatemala, cuts in the budget law led demonstrators to set fire in the Congress and demand the resignation of the president. In Brazil, the murder of Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas -a black man who ...
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