On Saturday, January 17, 2025, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, signed the free trade agreement between the European Union and MERCOSUR in Asunción, Paraguay. This agreement is the result of more than 20 years of discussions between the two institutions and now must be ratified by the European Parliament to come into effect. 

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There are many stereotypes about Latinos, like the one that says that “Latinos are lazy.” In the United States, faced with the mass arrests and deportations of undocumented migrants (mainly Latin Americans) carried out by the ICE several protests were held in Los Angeles to denounce, on the one hand, the unjustified deportations of working immigrants, on the other hand, the far-right rhetoric that too often compares Latin American migrants to drug traffickers or criminals.