These are TIME Magazine’s 2024 Most Influential Latinos in the World.

(CNN, Spanish) — Time magazine published this Wednesday its ranking of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024. Three Latino personalities stand out this year, two of whom are women. Additionally, the list includes two US-born Latin artists.

In its annual list, the American magazine selects people it considers agents of change in various categories such as “athletes”, “leaders”, “artists” and “pioneers”. This year, multi-award winning star Dua Lipa stands out all over the world as she tops the list and is included in the “artists” category. In the “icon” category, Spanish soccer player Jennifer Hermoso, 2023 Silver Ball winner, and Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who followed the Gaza war through his lens and is also the youngest person on Time’s list this year, stand out .

Featured Latinos appear in the “leaders” section, with Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, listed as the top one.

Below, we’ll tell you who designated Latinas are and what they do.

Marina Silva

Marina Silva is the Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Brazil. According to the magazine’s description, she is an “extraordinary” woman with “deep-rooted courage and unwavering tenacity.”

He adds that the minister and activist is a native of the Amazon and comes from a family of rubber tappers. She became one of Brazil’s most powerful senators and ran as a presidential candidate.

He emphasizes that in his current role, Silva is restoring Brazil’s ability to stop rampant illegal deforestation in the Amazon, which is driving a national transition from centralized fossil fuel energy to locally generated renewable energy. Internationally, he clarifies that he advocates for a broader understanding of the economic impact and value of nature. He will talk about it at the G-20 summit in Brazil this summer.

“We have a rare scientific consensus on what is going on, we have the information, we know the cost of inaction, we know what we want to avoid, we know what we need to do, and of course we have money to make.” ” necessary transition efforts “Year after year, we increasingly see the consequences of inaction on climate change,” Silva said in a 2023 interview with Time.

Diana Salazar

Afro-Ecuadorian Diana Salazar Mendez is the Attorney General of Ecuador. At 42, Time reports, she is the youngest person and the first black woman to hold the position, in which she has distinguished herself by fighting corruption in her country, as described by the U.S. State Department.

According to her biographical profile published on her website, she has a degree in political and social sciences from the Central University of Ecuador and a doctorate in jurisprudence, political and social sciences, and a lawyer in the courts of the Republic.

“While she has already handled difficult cases – not all prosecutors can say they have succeeded in convicting a high-profile football executive and former president – Ecuador’s attorney general is now leading the effort to stop violent, well-connected drug traffickers from destroying her beloved country,” it said. Time review.

The magazine’s text details that while Salazar is targeting networks of powerful political, judicial, police and economic actors linked to drug traffickers, she and her family have been the subject of several threats.

“In a country where trust in institutions is weak, Salazar has earned the respect and support of a population desperate for peace and security. As she says: “It’s time to tell all of Ecuador that justice cannot kneel.”

Javier Miley

Argentine President Javier Miley is another Latin figure on the list. In its review, Time describes him as “a radical libertarian economics professor and former television commentator with little government experience who won Argentina’s presidential election in a landslide in November on a promise to bring the country back to the brink of economic collapse.”

The detail text thatHis victory surprised sociologists and exposed the desperation of 46 million Argentines paralyzed by triple-digit inflation and a poverty rate of 40%.

In the description, Time uses the phrase that Miley said after the victory: “there is no turning back.” Add this Miley, 53, wasted no time in warning Argentines to “prepare for pain.”

“He launched a shock therapy campaign with hundreds of austerity measures: cutting 70,000 state jobs, cutting federal aid, halving the number of ministries and devaluing the peso. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets. Miley made statements full of blasphemy against those whom he calls socialists,” the text says.

Time concludes its profile of the Argentine president by saying that “while it is too early to tell whether the new president’s measures will be successful, it is clear that he has gotten one thing right: With Miley in power, there will be no turning back for Argentina.” “

America Ferrera

America Ferrera is an artist born in Los Angeles, California in 1984. She has Latin roots as her parents are Honduran.

During her long career, she became the first Latina to win an Emmy Award for her leading role in the successful comedy Ugly Betty, for which she also received a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award.

She was recently nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2024 Academy Awards for her role as Gloria in Barbie. Ferrera now makes her directorial debut with the adaptation of the New York Times bestseller I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.

She is also an activist and co-founder of organizations. non-commercial activity How “Powerful”, which, according to the description, was created to celebrate Latin culture, focusing on build a community that informs and motivates its members to take action to exercise their power both at the polls and in everyday life.

Time’s review, in this case by actress Blake Lively, notes that “there’s not enough space on this page to accommodate all of her scripts. Simply put, Ferrera’s America is everything. She puts 98 percent of it into herself.” .from herself to everything she touches, elevating everyone around her to the highest level. She transforms with every character she enters.”

“She is a hot pink hypodermic needle of adrenaline that goes straight to the heart of everyone who watches this movie. And the effect lasts for life. I speak from experience.”

Colman Domingo

Colman Domingo is an American film, television and theater actor with Latin roots, originally from Belize and Guatemala.

During his career, the artist, who identifies as part of the LGBT community, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor at the recent Academy Awards for his role as activist Bayard Rustin in Rustin, which also earned him a nomination for Emmy Award. and BAFTA awards.

Additionally, he won an Emmy Award in 2022 for Outstanding Guest Actor for his role in Max’s original series Euphoria.

Singer and musician Lenny Kravitz describes him in a TIME review as “a brother.” Kravitz later emphasizes Domingo’s “kindness” and “authenticity”. “He is completely honest and true to who he was made to be, and does it all with such grace, humility and gratitude,” he concludes.

Kravitz adds, “The characters Colman plays on screen are so varied—from a recovering drug addict to civil rights activist Bayard Rustin—that demonstrate his depth as an actor and creator. Watching his work continue to evolve is inspiring.”