News stories by Estrella Gutierrez

CARACAS, Jul 11 (IPS) - Latin America's teenage girls are a crucial force for change and for promoting sustainable development, if the region invests in their rights and the correction of unequal opportunities, according to Luiza Carvalho, the regional head of UN Women.

CARACAS, Jan 03 (IPS) - The family of Susana Suárez, a 35-year-old Venezuelan dentist, are still in shock over her death in a traffic accident in May. She and a friend were killed on their way back from the beach, and became just two more of the 130,000 victims who died on Latin America's roads in 2013.

CARACAS, Dic 17 (IPS) - "I ride 43 km a day and I love it," said Carlos Cantor in Bogotá, Colombia. "Five years ago I switched my car for a bike," explained Tomás Fuenzalida from Santiago, Chile.

CARACAS, Dic 21 (IPS) - Chagas disease, the third most serious infectious disease in Latin America, is developing a "new face" and moving into urban areas, while a new treatment may offer hope for millions of sufferers.

CARACAS, Aug 09 (IPS) - “Our raison d’etre is incorporating women in development, and especially in the benefits of development,” says Nora Castañeda, an economist who has headed the Banmujer bank in Venezuela since it was founded in 2001.

CARACAS, Nov 17 (IPS) - Experts at the Latin American Economic System (SELA) meeting in Venezuela on Thursday said that the economic growth of this decade has increased social polarisation, with 83 percent of new jobs occuring in the informal sector.

CARACAS, Nov 10 (IPS) - Venezuela will stiffen requirements for the granting of credits as part of a Programme of Energy Cooperation with Central America and the Caribbean, officials told IPS.