In 2010, as many as 64,000 people died in Latin America as a result of exposure to a fine particle matter known as PM 2.5. The air pollutant, which contributes to hazy city-skylines, is a direct result of solid and liquid fuel combustion in activities such as vehicle use. Nine years later, cities in Latin
The Seedstars LATAM summit, which took place in Lima, Peru in December has been celebrated as brining together some of the continent’s leading tech pioneers. Among them, specialists from Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia as well as several startup pioneers from central Europe. Chilean startup Osoji Solar was one of the organisations that travelled to Lima at the
After five years of dispute, on Monday Oct. 1 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Chile has the right not to enter into negotiations with Bolivia over contested access to the Pacific Ocean. This land dispute has haunted Bolivia since 1884 when they lost the War of the Pacific, which meant they lost
