![Chile's Torres del Paine National Park in Magallanes](https://americasquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Torres-del-Paine-Eduardo-Hernandez-300x234.jpg)
Q&A: Chile’s Ambitious Environmental Fund
Restoring the national botanical garden, which burned down in this year’s wildfires, is just one project for the relatively new national fund.
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Q&A: Bringing End-of-Life Care to Rio’s Favelas
AQ talked to the founder of an organization that provides palliative care in the Rocinha and Vidigal favelas.
![Diego Ontaneda Benavides’ organization, the Latin American Leadership Academy, trains teenagers, most from marginalized communities, into budding changemakers.](https://americasquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AQ0124_ONLINE_2-300x183.jpg)
Q&A: The Leadership Academy Spanning 17 Latin American Countries
Diego Ontaneda Benavides’s organization trains teenagers, most from marginalized communities, into budding changemakers.
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Q&A: The Nonprofit Spotlighting Domestic Workers’ Commutes
Based in Bogotá, Valentina Montoya Robledo’s Invisible Commutes wants to make public transit work better for household workers.
![A digital model of Chile's first wooden skyscraper towers over the city of Coyhaique.](https://americasquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ET_V02-300x169.jpg)
Q&A: The Chilean Architects Building High-Rises—Out of Wood
A 12-story wood building in Patagonia will be the first of its kind in the country.
![A man wears a prosthetic arm and hand developed by LAT Bionics, a Peruvian company focused on low-cost prosthetic designs.](https://americasquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/AQ0123_QandA-300x176.jpg)
Luke Skywalker Inspired Him As a Boy. Now, His Company Makes Low-Cost Prosthetics.
From Urubamba, Peru, Enzo Romero started LAT Bionics to put prostheses within reach for more people.
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Ricardo Lagos on Latin America’s Changing of the Guard
The former Chilean president on the promise of a new generation of leaders—and what they still need to learn.
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Ricardo Lagos sobre el cambio de guardia en América Latina
El ex presidente chileno habla sobre la promesa de una nueva generación de líderes–y sobre lo que aún deben aprender.
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The Organization Helping Young Argentines Reach for the Stars
Ignacio Peña’s Open Space puts on student competitions for space technology. Now, a winning idea is in space.
![Camila Uribe of Colombian think tank Casa de las Estrategias, which brings youth perspectives on violence to policy makers.](https://americasquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AQ0222_QAB-300x176.jpg)
The Colombian Think Tank Bridging Two Worlds
Casa de las Estrategias brings insights from low-income Medellín neighborhoods to the policy-making conversation.