“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,” an expert on the region says.
The health minister says he has personally called wealthy residents supposedly in quarantine and discovers they are defying the order.
Make-up artist Nadia Mu?oz applies lipstick while listening to the television news about the first person in Peru who died of coronavirus in an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Lima, Peru, on March 20, 2020.The first person to die in Rio state was Cleonice Gonçalves, a 63-year-old who worked as a maid for a woman in Leblon, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Brazil.
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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