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Latin American Perspectives would like to invite its readers, editors, and authors to submit short reflections and or photographs to our blog about how communities in Latin America and Latinx communities in the US are confronting the COVID-19 crisis.

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The Shadow Pandemic

October 5th, 2020|

By Amy Risley


In June 2020, the World Health Organization identified Latin America as an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sadly, the region now risks becoming an epicenter of the “Shadow Pandemic,” the global surge in gender-based violence (UN Women 2020a). In Latin America, an estimated 20 million women and girls experience sexual and physical abuse each year. According to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, at least 3,529 women were victims of femicide in 2018 (Fumega 2020). Available data suggest a substantial increase in physical and sexual intimate partner violence across the […]

COVID-19 y la coexistencia con la vida silvestre: un debate necesario

August 6th, 2020|


Por Mariela Díaz Sandoval | Aug. 6, 2020

Bastaron pocas semanas de confinamiento forzoso, provocado por la pandemia del COVID-19, para que los seres humanos nos sorprendiéramos ante el avistamiento inusual de ejemplares de la vida silvestre. A pesar de algunas fake news que circularon al respecto (Daly, 2020), llamó la atención un video que capturó a una ballena realizando majestuosos saltos en la Bahía de Acapulco. En el mismo sentido, distintas playas de México presenciaron bioluminiscencia, proceso que se traduce en un bello resplandor color turquesa (Heras, 2020), que remite a la extraordinaria Life of Pi, de Ang Lee, obra maestra donde, precisamente, se […]

El COVID-19 y las cárceles en México

June 25th, 2020|


Por Alberto Espejel Espinoza  | June 25, 2020

El objetivo de la reflexión es brindar un panorama general sobre la situación que guarda la población carcelaria frente al COVID-19 en México. Primero se discute la situación carcelaria, resaltando los problemas en su interior. En segundo lugar, se muestra la relación entre COVID-19 y penales en el caso mexicano.

Situación carcelaria en México

En México, la población penitenciaria es un sector estigmatizado, que vive en condiciones indignas ante el olvido de los gobiernos estatales y federal durante varios sexenios (Documenta, 2016). Vale la pena resaltar que México es una sociedad de las más violentas […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: COVID 19 Blog

June 20th, 2020|

June 20, 2020

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: COVID 19 Blog


Latin American Perspectives would like to invite its readers, editors, and authors to submit short reflections and or photographs to our blog about how communities in Latin America and Latinx communities in the US are confronting the COVID-19 crisis. Blog posts should run between 200 to 1000 words and can be in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

Please send your submissions to lap.outreach@gmail.com, subject line “COVID-19 Blog”

While social distancing and quarantine protocols are necessary to stem the spread of the virus, we are witnessing ways in which these measures can also reinforce economic and […]

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