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Memorial depicting Oscar Romero and the 1980 murders of U.S. missionaries in El Salvador.. On December 2, 1980, four Catholic missionaries from the United States working in El Salvador were raped and murdered by five members of the El Salvador National Guard (Daniel Canales Ramírez, Carlos Joaquín Contreras Palacios, Francisco Orlando Contreras Recinos, José Roberto Moreno Canjura, and Luis ...
About 20,000 people lost their homes and became refugees as a result of urban warfare. About 2,700 families displaced by the El Chorrillo fire were given $6,500 each by the U.S. to build a new house or apartment in selected areas in or near Panama City.
Widely scapegoated for exacerbating the overall economic downturn of the Great Depression, many Mexicans lost their jobs. [13] Mexicans were further targeted because of "the proximity of the Mexican border, the physical distinctiveness of mestizos , and easily identifiable barrios ."
Migrants in Latin America are more likely to work in informal jobs despite having higher qualifications compared to native workers, hindering their integration, a joint report by three ...
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The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States. [2] It was established on February 17, 1929, in Corpus Christi, Texas, largely by Hispanics returning from World War I who sought to end ethnic discrimination against Latinos in the United States.
Between 2% and 5% of jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean are threatened by artificial intelligence (AI) and at risk of being fully automated, a report by the International Labor Organization ...
The 1931 Barcelona rent strike was called in July 1931 by Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) [1] as a result of a massive immigration wave to Barcelona for jobs constructing the 1929 International Exposition, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and political instability. By the following month, 100,000 working-class families had joined it.