In 2024, amid a surge of conservative governments throughout the region, Uruguay's Frente Amplio-led presidency, under the direction of Yamandú Orsi, appointed Collette Spinetti as Human Rights Secretary. Orsi's election was celebrated by progressive sectors in South America, especially after similar victories by center-left leaders in

At the beginning of last July, a new scandal brought the trans community back into the public eye. The beautiful Afro-Peruvian model Javiera Arnillas, tired of transphobic comments on her social media, revealed a curious incident with one of the authors of those comments.