Tourism in Central America, Social conflict in a new setting Even though the impact of the tourism industry is becoming increasingly well known and local conflicts are breaking out across Central America, the capacity for global mobilization in the face of its expansion is still quite limited. In many of these local conflicts, the communities are quite isolated and the capacity to respond is very weak.
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In the last two weeks, Mexico's Supreme Court has taken two fundamental steps in recognising the rights of gays and lesbians. On Monday, it voted to uphold a Mexico City law that allows same-sex couples to adopt. The legislation is part of a series of progressive laws passed by the leftwing government of the federal district, that has also included the legalisation of abortion, in line with a similar trend seen in other countries of the region. Argentina has recently became the first Latin American nation to legalise same-sex marriage.
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A new Human Right Watch´s report entitled "Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina", documents the many obstacles women and girls face in getting the reproductive health care services to which they are entitled, such as contraception, voluntary sterilization procedures, and abortion after rape.
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