For this week’s Game Changer on “Americas Now,” meet Argentina’s Nicolas Garcia Mayor. Nicolas has designed an emergency shelter for victims of natural disasters. Called CMAX, it looks like a tent, folds up and can be transported too. It even comes with collapsible furniture.
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An institute started by a renowned chef in Sao Paulo Brazil is preparing more than just meals. Through her classes, she’s serving students ample helpings of confidence as well. This week’s Game Changer on Americas Now is Simone Berti who began the NGO “Chefs Especiais” […]
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They are a band in Mexico whose goal is to save an indigenous language with their music. They call themselves “Juchirap” and they sing lyrics written in the language’s native tongue that are catching on with others.
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They joined a swimming team with the hope of improving their physical and mental abilities. Little did they know they’d become World Champions. Coach Paloma Torres has changed the lives of girls with Down Syndrome through her synchronized swim team called “Special Sirens.”
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According to The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), over 50 million people in Latin America have disabilities. For those in poverty, the result is often limited care and social exclusion. This week’s Game Changer on “Americas Now” has championed the rights of the […]
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Dr. Susan Pick is a social psychologist who has used her expertise to change the behavior of Mexico’s marginalized. By teaching them what she calls “life skills,” she helps boost their feelings of self-worth and enhance their problem-solving abilities.
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The founder of a Mexican NGO that seeks to reduce youth violence by encouraging social development is this week’s Game Changer on “Americas Now.”
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At the 2016 Olympics rugby will be played for the first time since the 1920’s. But in Brazil, the host-nation for the games, rugby is a sport that is relatively new to many, especially kids from the city’s slums.
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With Colombia’s 50-year armed conflict and drug war dominating the national conversation, neglected animals don’t even make the list of national concerns. However, many animals have been casualties of these events.
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It’s a new development in green technology that you could say bends the rules. Using discarded tires to construct a home.
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The name of his town in Mexico is La Reforma, and this coach is trying to reform the way kids in the community grow up.
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Ciudad Juarez is border town between Mexico and the U.S., and became infamous for a wave of attacks beginning in the 1990s that left hundreds of women dead over the course of a decade. Though homicide rates there are falling, the scars have yet to […]
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You may not know it, but the country with the longest Caribbean coast line is Venezuela. Destruction of the coral reef, however, has threatened its ecosystem.
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Ciudad Juarez is the biggest border town in Mexico. This city of 1.5 million people has been seeing a big growth in industry in recent years, but it also has had a reputation for being a center of violence and crime. Many young people consider […]
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Modern football was invented in England in the late XIX century, spreading rapidly around the world. Perhaps no other country adopted it as faithfully as Argentina, where it has become a national obsession. Buenos Aires, for example, is the city with the largest number of […]
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At first glance, it may look like a big happy blue bus, like so many vehicles servicing the thousands of tourists that flock to Mexico every year. But this particular vehicle offers visitors a very unique experience.
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Human trafficking is known as the slavery of the 21st century, especially with women and children forced into prostitution and labor.
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Rio de Janeiro is as famous for its wonderful beaches and incomparable landscapes, as for its almost one thousand favelas or slums where gangs still battle to control the territory and a lucrative drug business. It is estimated that 22% of Rio’s population of over […]
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In Ciudad Juarez, on the border with the U.S., women go missing every week. Some are forced into prostitution and human trafficking, others disappear without leaving trace, and some are found murdered.
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She’s a human rights advocate from Argentina and the woman behind the law that gave same-sex couples the right to marry. This week’s Game Changer is social leader Maria Rachid.
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Mexico City’s east side is known to be the roughest, most dangerous part of town. Life can be unforgiving in the slums, especially in one of the most populated cities in the world.
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10 years ago, Pablo Salazar had an accident diving into shallow water that left him paralyzed from the waist down. As a quadriplegic, he quickly realized how ill equipped his hometown of Bogota was to facilitate every life to people with disabilities.
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This week’s Game Changer has always relied on his hands to get him ahead. He first used them to pick fruit in California as a migrant farm worker, now he uses them to operate for neurosurgery.
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This week’s Game Changer is Armando Estrada. He’s a social entrepreneur and the co-founder of Via Educacion, an organization that develops leaders that return to their communities in Latin America to implement ideas and strategies. The goal is to create a more democratic society and […]
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Guillermo Marro is one of Argentina’s finest Olympic athletes. The swimmer has competed in four different Games, winning three Olympic medals. In London 2012, he was awarded with the honor of being the pole bearer for the Argentinian delegation.
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Jorge Heli has been a part of the circus since his teenage years as a street performer. Working on the public spaces of his native town of La Sabana and other cities in Venezuela, he realized that his country didn’t need more street performers but […]
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Riding a bike in Mexico City can be extremely dangerous especially if you’re a first time bike rider, and a woman. Weaving in between cars, congested streets and five hours of traffic jams every day can seem intimidating, but one woman who runs a local […]
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Flavio Pimienta’s childhood dreams of being a rock star have come true, but in a way he never imagined. Along with his band, he’s travelled across the Atlantic Ocean and played for world leaders and corporate sponsors like British Airways. The members of his band, […]
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With over 130 homicides per 100,000 residents, Caracas is the deadliest of the world’s capital cities. Amongt its infamous ‘Barrios’, the large slums that sprawl over its mountainous terrain, perhaps the most notorious is Petare, the largest of them all.
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This week’s “Game Changer” is Lina Marcela Cataño Bedoyo. Her mission is to make floatable housing solutions for the adaption to climate change.
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The bleak conditions of prison life in Latin America are something Americas Now has reported in the past. From overcrowded jails to security conditions to systematic abuse of the interns, the chances of effective rehabilitation of the inmates are slim.
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In Mexico, diabetes is an epidemic. It affects almost 50 percent of the Mexican population. It is partially caused by the fact that 30 percent of the country is obese.
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Amid the urban streets of Bogota, Colombia, Rosa Poveda has built a farm and a school that works to restore pride in Colombian farming.
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A non-governmental organization in Argentina is working to prevent senseless deaths to curable diseases. Cuerpo y Alma, or ‘Body and Soul’ delivers supplies and expertise to the poorest regions of the country.
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Mónica González played at the highest level of Mexican soccer, representing her country in both the 1999 Women’s World Cup and the 2004 Olympics in Athens. In 2009, with her chances to play dwindling, González switched to coaching by teaching girls from low income families […]
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Nora Sandigo has 817 children. Obviously she is not their biological mother, but their adopted one. As their legal guardian, she takes care of their health, monitors their education and defends their rights.
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Barcelona, the cultural heart of the Catalonia region of Spain, has suffered along with the rest of Spain in recent years. Once, the streets were alive with musicians and bars were filled with live music, but the city has become quiet.
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Over 15 million people live in the massive metropolis of Mexico City, but only about a quarter of them have a high school degree. Despite Mexico’s attempt to increase the amount of money spent on education as a percentage of its Gross Domestic Production, the […]
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They say “laughter is the best medicine.” And one Venezuelan hospital program may be proving that to be true. It trains volunteers to become clowns that perform at the bedsides of patients.
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This week’s “Game Changer” is Charlie Sarria, co-founder of the Bolivarian Street Boxing program. He grew up in La Vega, and says you have to know how to handle the streets. “How you treat the neighborhood, the neighborhood will treat you,” he said.
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Bolivia has cut poverty by a quarter in the last decade, but still remains one of the poorest countries in South America. There are more than 800,000 underage workers in Bolivia. Many of them are homeless and have to fend for themselves.
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This week’s “Game Changer” is Fernando “Ponce” Laspina who is using boxing as a way to help troubled youths.
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This week’s “Game Changer” is Rodrigo Baggio, a man who discovered his first two passions early in life at twelve years old: “Technology and my work with street kids.”
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With a rise in drug trade and a spike in violence, Rosario, Argentina has the highest murder rate in the country. In 2013, the number of murders rose by 76%. This year, the figures are expected to be even higher. And despite the construction boom, […]
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This week’s “Game Changer” on Americas Now is Enrique Lomnitz, a man helping Mexico City find a solution for its water shortage.
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Almost 40-percent of the households in Mexico City have no access to clean water at home. To quench the thirst of the city’s 20 million residents, the government plans to invest billions to solve the problem. One man has started a project he believes will […]
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For Ruth Buendía, her biggest fight against indifference and exclusion is still in progress, she is this week’s “Game Changer”.
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This week’s “Game Changer” on Americas Now is an artist of all trades. Daniel “El Topo” Rivero is helping bring beauty to a structure that hasn’t had the best reputation.
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This week’s “Game Changer” on Americas Now is someone who has made it his mission to fight crime and violence with sports. His name is Luke Dowdney.
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He took on the brave fight against school dropout rates in an impoverished public school in Mexico. Then, he revolutionized teaching methods, and led an entire class to success. He is Game Changer Sergio Juarez Correa.
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