Analyzing blood samples in the ICU of the Eugenio Espejo Hospital in Ecuador. Everyone in this unit is a COVID-19 patient. Credit: Paul Salazar / Banco Mundial via Flickr

Online Exclusive 12/18/2020 Essay

Roundtable: Latin American Responses to COVID-19

From the Editors

The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present an online exclusive roundtable on Latin American experiences of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This roundtable, organized by Joy Gordon and Raul Salgado Espinoza, examines the impact of COVID-19 in relation to the experiences of indigenous women in the Ecuadorian Amazon; U.S. economic sanctions on Cuba; corruption in Ecuador; and health and environment in Peru. The roundtable contains engaging contributions by Ivette Vallejo and Marisol Rodríguez, Raúl Rodríguez, Raúl Salgado Espinoza, and Doreen Montag and Marco Barboza.

ESSAYS

Introduction: Latin American Responses to COVID-19
Joy Gordon and Raul Salgado Espinoza

Sustaining life: Indigenous Women and COVID-19 in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Ivette Vallejo and Marisol Rodríguez

U.S. Economic Sanctions on Cuba in the context of the Pandemic COVID-19
Raúl Rodríguez

Corruption and COVID-19 in Ecuador
Raúl Salgado Espinoza

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health and the Environment in Rural Peru
Doreen Montag and Marco Barboza