The coronavirus is beginning to take root in Latin America, a region starkly divided between rich and poor, and experts warn it could kill scores of the neediest people.
Las Condes Mayor Joaquín Lavín says more than half the cases in the city are in Las Condes and Vitacura.
Mexican authorities say at least 17 of the country’s wealthiest people returned after being infected during a ski trip to Vail, Colorado. In a shack on a nearby hill, Alejandro de la Cruz, 86, his wife María Zoila, and his son Ramiro, who sold clothes on the street until the quarantine started this month, were cooking with charcoal. They have no running water, electricity, internet or phone service.
“Latin America is the most unequal region in the entire world. We’re talking about class disparities that are unlike anywhere else on the planet,” said Geoff Ramsey, a researcher at the Washington Office on Latin America. Brazil’s right-wing government has no such plans. On Twitter last week, left-leaning politicians called for maids to receive their salaries while self-isolating, adding the hashtag #PaidQuarantineNow.
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