Nicaraguan government lets COVID-19 spread freely, covers up toll
wsws.org | 2020-05-18
The Ortega regime's response demonstrates the inevitable outcome of Sandinismo and all petty-bourgeois nationalist movements that have historically defended capitalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/18/nica-m18.html
Massive protests in El Salvador against President Nayib Bukele
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-15
Salvadorans are protesting over the lack of food and economic aid to poor and unemployed people, the shortage of personal protection equipment for health workers, and the delay in the return of people stranded abroad…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/15/massive-protests-in-el-salvador-against-president-nayib-bukele/
Coronavirus lockdowns in Central America, exploited by criminal gangs
news.un.org | 2020-05-15
Chronic violence, insecurity and now COVID-related restrictions have put tens of thousands of Central Americans at risk of increased hardship and even death, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1064172
El Diego: the Two Lives of Maradona
Tony McKenna | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
22 June 1986. A world cup quarter-final is about to play out in the Estadio Azteca stadium at the heart of Mexico City. Under the billowing blue skies and the streaming sunlight the pitch is shadowless and pastel green. The teams line up. The English in white. The Argentinians in blue. As the Argentine anthem plays, the camera moves across the team, before lingering momentarily on the solemn, stormy features of the captain
The Heat: COVID19-U.S. Economy & Mexico battles coronavirus
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-05-05
Unemployment claims move past 30 million in the United States as its economy shrinks and Mexico battles the coronavirus pandemic.
america.cgtn.com/2020/05/05/the-heat-covid19-u-s-economy-mexico-battles-coronavirus
"The Wuhan of the Americas": U.S. Deports COVID-19-Positive Immigrants to Haiti & Guatemala
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-15
The United States continues to deport thousands during the coronavirus pandemic, causing a dangerous spread of COVID-19 to Central America and the Caribbean. We speak with Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat, who says "U.S. deportations to Haiti during coronavirus pandemic are 'unconscionable,'" and go to Guatemala City for an update from reporter José Alejandro García Escobar.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/15/us_deportations_haiti_guatemala_coronavirus