In the following months we will be discussing the effects of COVID19 across Latin America. We will be able to read the opinions, thoughts, reflections of scholars, activists and researchers from different parts of Latin America. The space is open to everyone interested in offering a critical and sustained opinion of the cultural significance and uniqueness that the pandemic poses for this part of the Global South.
Contact us if you are interested in sending a short text (1000-1500 words).
Where are you coming from, asked the saleswomen from a shop already in São Paulo at a safe distance. I said I was coming from London and asked her, “aren’t you afraid to talk to me, I don’t mind looking around on my…
Colectivo Kaleidos: María Elissa Torres y Maka Suárez Lenny nos cuenta que los primeros días estaban desesperadas. El ambiente en Guayaquil era de caos total, muchas compañeras de la UNTHA (Unión Nacional de…
At a time when the world is facing an unprecedented pandemic, all aspects of human life in this year 2020 are deeply affected. The disease designated as COVID-19, caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has not only…
Ecuador, like so many other countries in the world is heavily affected by the COVID19 pandemic. We remain in a state of emergency though given the added economic difficulties we’ve begun to see some relaxations in our…
The Jamaican government has used its ‘Emergency Powers Act’ many times since independence. Recently, bursts of violence, involving attempts by gangs to grasp control of the illegal drug trade on the island, have led to…
Durante las primeras noches de la emergencia, las ambulancias pasaban continuamente ante nuestra casa, como el lamento interminable de la ciudad enferma. Sus luces urgentes exigían atención, pero nos habíamos fijado,…
Among the many myths about the coronavirus, one of the strangest circulated on Twitter is the belief that snorting cocaine could ward off the illness. But unfortunately for the would-be consumer, as travel has ground…