The two presidents drove out 10,000 Cuban doctors and nurses. They defunded the region’s leading health agency. They wrongly pushed hydroxychloroquine as a cure.
Tag: Latin America
Pandemic Drives Millions From Latin America’s Universities
They were the first in their families to make it to college. But how do you study when you can’t afford to eat?
Trump Ally Wants to Be First American to Head Latin American Aid Bank
Mauricio Claver-Carone wants to become the first American to control Latin America’s chief source of development funding. His nomination has been divisive in the region, which is in economic crisis and sees the bank’s role as crucial to its recovery.
Latin America Is Facing a ‘Decline of Democracy’ Under the Pandemic
The coronavirus is battering Latin American health systems and economies. It is also threatening the region’s fragile political freedoms.
In Latin America, the Pandemic Threatens Equality Like Never Before
Over the past two decades, inequality in Latin America had fallen to the lowest point in its recorded history. The pandemic threatens to reverse that. We traveled 1,000 miles across Colombia to document this critical moment.
Mexican Officials Blame Cartel Turf War for Mass Killing
Violence in many countries has waned during the coronavirus pandemic, but not in Mexico, and warfare between rival criminal gangs has devastated the state of Guanajuato.
A Simple Way to Save Lives as Covid-19 Hits Poorer Nations.
Aid agencies are scrambling to get oxygen equipment to low-income countries where the coronavirus is rapidly spreading.
The World Reopens, Despite Skyrocketing Coronavirus Cases
The number of infections is rising faster than ever, but many countries have decided that this is the moment to ease lockdown restrictions.
Coronavirus Rips Into Regions Previously Spared
As the West settles into a grinding battle with the disease, the virus surges across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and South Asia.
Coronavirus Live: World News Coverage
Some countries are reinstating controls after backsliding. And a Canadian zoo may return its pandas to China, worried it can no longer find food for them.