The poor, indigenous, homosexuals, Afro-descendants and migrants suffer the greatest discrimination in the region.
The
resulting scandal after ultra-right-wing Lima newspaper Correo on April
17 published an article that said Quechua-speaking Peruvian
Congresswoman Hilaria Supa was unfit to be a lawmaker because of errors
in her Spanish writing, has brought discrimination again to the
forefront of public discussion.
The 2008 Latinobarómetro — a public opinion poll of 19,000 people in 18 Latin American countries — found that sectors that suffer the worst discrimination in the region are the poor, indigenous, homosexuals, Afro-descendants, the elderly and the disabled.
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Country
|
The poor
|
Indigenous peoples
|
|||||
|
Paraguay
|
40
|
20
|
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Peru
|
40
|
4
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Argentina
|
37
|
3
|
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Chile
|
36
|
9
|
|||||
|
Venezuela
|
35
|
6
|
|||||
|
Brazil
|
34
|
1
|
|||||
|
Mexico
|
34
|
22
|
|||||
|
Uruguay
|
33
|
0
|
|||||
|
Honduras
|
32
|
1
|
|||||
|
Dominican Rep.
|
31
|
n.d.
|
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Colombia
|
30
|
8
|
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Nicaragua
|
29
|
1
|
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Costa Rica
|
28
|
9
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Guatemala
|
26
|
37
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Bolivia
|
25
|
40
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Ecuador
|
25
|
17
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Panama
|
23
|
24
|
|||||
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El Salvador
|
18
|
0
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