Urban poverty, inequality and social exclusion are a long-standing syndrome of Latin American urbanization. The continent of largely urban societies is essentially fractured, showing a basic duality of rich and poor, formal and informal, organized and disintegrated, ruled and unruled. In addition, a wider set of problems have been emerging over the past decades such as alarmingly low levels of social trust and the proliferation of violence and fear.
Here, a teenage girl breast feeds her 10 day old baby. She conceived the baby after she was kidnapped and raped. Abortion is illegal in Guatemala.
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