The Conversation

The United States and Brazil have much in common when it comes to the coronavirus.

Domestic workers are central figures in Brazil, a hidden workforce that keeps society running.

Native communities in North America have been disrupted and displaced for centuries. Many face long-standing food and water inequities that are further complicated by this pandemic.

Even before COVID-19, infectious disease spread rapidly among Salvadoran prisoners.

Moreover, black men’s physical bodies are viewed as potential weapons that could invoke bodily harm, even when they are not holding anything in their hands or attacking.

The current situation of a global pandemic invites reconsideration of similar situations that happened in the past, such as the great plague in Europe in the 14th century, or the successive and devastating influenza and measles epidemics (amongst others) which decimated indigenous populations in the post-Columbian era in Latin America, and especially in the Amazon.

Dead bodies are lying at home and in the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador, a city so hard-hit by coronavirus that overfilled hospitals are turning away even very ill patients and funeral homes are unavailable for burial.

Remittances shelter a large number of poor and vulnerable households, underpinning the survival strategies of over 1 billion people.

In the United States, Asian Americans have long been considered as a threat to a nation that promoted a whites-only immigration policy.

We are among 250 population scientists and health specialists from around the globe who have issued a stark warning to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: governments must increase COVID-19 testing in the region before it is too late.

In a study published on April 6, I found Latino U.S. citizens’ deportation fears to be on the rise. Whereas 41% worried about deportation in 2007, 48% did in 2018. This amounts to about 13.6 million Latino U.S. citizens fearing deportation.

Most of these workers are employed seasonally to perform the hard manual labor of cultivating and harvesting crops. One-half to three-quarters of them were born outside of the United States, with the majority holding Mexican citizenship.

Many Indigenous groups are now blockading access to their communities, fearing COVID-19 infection.

Cuba has sent more than 400,000 healthcare professionals to work in 164 countries, according to statistics published by the state media.

For many Latinos, political events that affect their places of origin significantly influence their electoral preferences.

The pandemic affects our psyches three ways: It influences how we think, how we relate to others and what we value.

Instead of treating the conversation as a corrective lecture, treat the other person as an equal partner in the discussion.

As cases of COVID-19 proliferate, there’s a pandemic of fear unfolding alongside the pandemic of the coronavirus.

The more television people watch the more they prefer a thinner female body type.

Brazil’s divisive President Jair Bolsonaro has taken another step in his bold plans to develop the Amazon rainforest.

After 40 years of failing to qualify for a national election, the political party of the Israelites —called the Agricultural People’s Front of Peru, or Frepap— won 15 congressional seats. In a fragmented Congress with nine parties, that makes the Israelites the third-largest legislative bloc.