The year 2020 has shown a scene of a pandemic that has already cost more than 1.2 million lives - 400,000 of them in Latin America. A phenomenon of this magnitude is bound to overwhelm our global attention - and colonize all the headlines.
Though this is understandable, the smoke curtain growing throughout Latin America is increasingly thickening, covering several latent crises. If we manage to break through that curtain, we see, for example, concerning increases in the magnitude of environmental crimes and gender-based violence.
Fires in the Amazon
News of the fires in the Brazilian Amazon circulated the world in August 2019, an issue that remained as one of the world's trending topics for several weeks. World leaders and celebrities with millions of followers were shocked by the situation and denounced it.
