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In January 2018, Shakira won her third Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album for her album El Dorado, making her the only female latin artist to do so. The sales for that album reached 4,000,000 copies worldwide. She celebrated this with the release of the single Trap ft. Maluma.

In January 2018 she announced the finalized dates for her El Dorado World Tour. She began the first leg of her tour in Europe, starting in Hamburg, Germany on June 3rd and then ending in Barcelona, Spain on July 7th. She then spent a short time in Asia on the 11th and 13th of July, after which she went to North America. She started her time there on August 3rd in Chicago and finished in San Francisco on September 7th. In May 2018, she confirmed and announced her final tour dates for Latin America, starting off in Mexico City on October 11th and finished her tour in Bogota, Colombia on November 3rd.

Politics
In October 2010, Shakira expressed disagreement with French president, Nicolás Sarkozy, and his policy of expelling Romanian gypsies from the country. In the Spanish edition of the magazine GQ, she also directed a few words to Sarkozy, “We are all gypsies”. In the interview she made her viewpoint very clear: “What is happening now to them (the gypsies) will happen to our children and our children’s children. We must turn to our citizens to act for the fundamental rights of human beings and condemn all that seems to us indictable”, she declared.

In October 2011, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, named her advisor to the Commission of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. On November 2nd, 2018, during a visit to her birthplace, Barranquilla, for the construction of a school through her Barefoot Foundation (Pies Descalzos Foundation), Shakira spoke about the educational policies of the government under Ivan Duque (President of Colombia, 2018-2022). Speaking against the government’s intentions to reduce the national education budget from 13% to 7%, she said, “This is unacceptable. It shows that instead of progressing forward we are moving backward. We need to invest more in education and we need to build more schools in places where there are none”. She also talked about social inequality and unschooling.