Ecuador: Covid stalks the highlands
This article was prepared by the author on April 22 2020. While the counts of cases and deaths from Covid-19 have changed (see Postscript...
Salvadorean refugees repatriate to Nueva Esperanza
In 1991 a group of 325 Salvadorean refugees returned to their country after 10 years of exile in Nicaragua. They faced great difficulties in...
Bolsonaro won’t help us with coronavirus
Excellent video from The Guardian showing Brazil's favela-dwellers working hard to implement lock-downs and to supply food and essentials to their communities, while President...
Uncontacted tribes could be exterminated by Covid-19
This article was first published on 6 April 2020 by Newsweek. You can read the original article here.
The COVID-19 pandemic could “wipe out”...
Bolsonaro the grave-digger
April 23 2020. I'm not a gravedigger’ said President Jair Bolsonaro scornfully, when a reporter tried to question him about the number of coronavirus...
Ten Years: an NGO adapts to peace-building in Colombia
Written by Christian Aid’s Kate Newman and Karen Brock, based on conversations with Pedro Lazaro, Thomas Mortensen and Alejandra Albizu.
For more than two decades,...
Gendered quarantine leaves trans people vulnerable
Gender-based movement restrictions came into effect in Bogotá this Monday (13 April), permitting men and women to go out for essential trips on...
The Amazon: hunger – the invisible side of Covid-19
This article originally appeared in Portuguese in the Portuguese newspaper O Público, on 2 April, here.
The version published by Amazon Latitude, here, was translated...
Rapid deforestation may fuel pandemics
Nearly 25,000 COVID-19 cases have
been confirmed in Brazil, with 1,378 deaths as of April 15, though some
experts say this is an underestimate....
São Paulo: the streets under ‘social isolation’
(main image, above) Thursday 26 March, 1:54 pm. A homeless person lies in the entrance to one of the many banks on Rua Boa...