Latin America

• Thursday, May 28th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Peruvian record lockdown: three months paralyzing the economy

  

  The health system in Peru is on the brink of collapse, with public hospitals facing drastic equipment shortages amid a rising number of coronavirus cases. A University of Washington study has projected that Covid-19 deaths in Peru will reach nearly 20,000 by August, indicating that demand is likely to outstrip the supply of beds in intensive care units.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 08:19 UTC

  LATAM Airlines files for bankruptcy in US; Brazil and Argentina subsidiaries out of the request

  

  LATAM Airlines Group, the continent's largest carrier, filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection, Chapter 11, on Tuesday, becoming the world's largest carrier so far to seek an emergency reorganization due to the coronavirus pandemic. The filing includes Latam Peru, Chile, Ecuador, and Colombia, but leaves out Latam Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 08:17 UTC

  Desperate Ecuadoreans look for their loved ones in shipping containers filled with decomposing corpses

  

  Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest coastal city has been ravaged by coronavirus with bodies buried in mass graves or kept in newly-filled shipping containers to help relatives identify their loved ones among the decomposing corpses.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 08:16 UTC

  PAHO growing concerns with the accelerating pandemic in Brazil, Peru and Chile

  

  International health authorities expressed concern on Tuesday over signs the spread of the new coronavirus is still accelerating in Brazil, Peru, and Chile. The Pan American Health Organization, which serves as the regional office for the World Health Organization, has been monitoring the pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 08:08 UTC

  Mexican auto industry picks up with approved safety measures

  

  Mexico's auto industry reopening picked up the pace on Tuesday, with Fiat, Chrysler, and BMW AG joining peers in gradually dusting off operations even as the wait for approvals slowed the return of Ford Motor Co and other companies.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2020 - 07:55 UTC

  Street demonstrations in Ecuador to protests drastic economic measures

  

  Demonstrators defied coronavirus restrictions to march in cities across Ecuador on Monday in protest against President Lenin Moreno's drastic economic measures to tackle the crisis.

• Monday, May 25th 2020 - 20:59 UTC

  Mexico anticipates the loss of a million jobs because of the Covid-19 pandemic

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday that the novel coronavirus could cost as many as a million jobs in the country as many industries considered not essential remain shut.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  South America becomes a new epicenter of Covid-19 pandemic

  

  South America has become “a new epicenter” of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, following a surge in the number of Covid-19 infections.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Overwhelmed by Covid-19, Peru extends nationwide lockdown until end of June

  

  Peru on Friday extended its state of emergency and a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic until the end of June, marking one of the longest periods of mandatory isolation in the world.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Peruvian city prays to the Virgin of Socorro, flown in a police helicopter, for the end of coronavirus

  

  Every five years, a statue of the Virgin of Socorro is paraded through the streets of Peru’s third-largest city, Trujillo. But this year, the coronavirus lockdown meant the city’s patron saint could not make her rounds as usual.