August 2020. The country, often cited as a poster child for economic development and home to 32 million people, registered more than 2,000 pandemic-related deaths in the first two weeks of June alone. It now has the third-highest reported case total in the World Health Organization’s Americas region, behind the US and Brazil. Unlike those… Continue reading Aug 2020. Peru Economy hit by Covid
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Apr 2020. Buenos Aires Prison Stand Off
April 2020. The unsanitary, overcrowded prisons and juvenile detention centers in most Latin American and Caribbean countries offer prime conditions for outbreaks of COVID-19 that could severely affect the health of detainees and of the population at large, Human Rights Watch said today. In March 2020, inmates in detention facilities in several Latin American countries… Continue reading Apr 2020. Buenos Aires Prison Stand Off