Latin America's Social Distance Disconnect
Latin America's Social Distance Disconnect
While wealthy residents shelter in place, many of those living on the edge of the region's biggest cities face impossible choices.
“They tell us on TV to wash our hands and our clothes – how are people here supposed to do this if they don’t have water or soap?”
Jorge Luiz Souza, 57, lives in Morro do Andaraí, a favela smack in the middle of a hillside in northern Rio de Janeiro, where residents are struggling to square their already vulnerable situations with the reality of a pandemic that has left many without jobs.
In Mexico, Norma Puchet Mixtega hops a bus – now half empty – to head to work cleaning a furniture store in Mexico City’s upscale Lomas de Chapultepec neighborhood. “Until they tell me not...
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