COVID-19

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico began more reopenings of businesses shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, even as deaths and new cases continued at an unbroken pace.

Jaime Mañalich faced criticism for his methods of counting cases and deaths.

Mexico’s tourism income crashed in April, when it was only 6.3% of what it was one year ago. Hundreds of thousands of hotel rooms were closed.

Archbishop Carlos Castillo on Sunday had his church filled with more than 5,000 portraits of those who have died in the pandemic that is burning across Peru and South America as a whole/

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor announced Thursday that she will lift nearly all restrictions aimed at curbing coronavirus cases, which means beaches, churches and businesses including movie theaters and gyms across the U.S. territory will reopen after three months.

Las muertes en Puerto Rico han aumentado durante los pasados tres meses pese a los pocos fallecimientos por COVID-19 reportados en la isla y a la reducción en las fatalidades por accidentes y crímenes debido al encierro por la cuarentena, en comparación con el 2019, encontró el Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI).

Our human progress feels brittle in the face of this relentless virus not only because of its devastating impact on our bodies but also because yet again the futility of our political logics, our economic priorities, and our grand theories of trickle-down equality is unmasked.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge on Thursday gave Puerto Rico’s education secretary 24 hours to open all public school cafeterias in the U.S. territory or face arrest as impoverished students struggle to obtain free meals amid the pandemic.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Plaintiffs and a proposed class covering hundreds of individuals in the region.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Wednesday that it has expanded COVID-19 testing among people held at its detention facilities following criticism of its response to the outbreak.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — As Puerto Rico considers lifting pandemic quarantine restrictions, health officials said Wednesday that the U.S. territory passed its peak of coronavirus cases and related deaths more than two months ago, though independent experts said those numbers are in doubt.

The court is currently set to make a decision by the end of June.

They got creative, and thanks to their efforts Puerto Rico went from the bottom of the list to administering more than 100,000 molecular tests for the virus.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — President Nayib Bukele is again locked in battle with El Salvador’s Supreme Court after its constitutional chamber ruled his government’s obligatory stay-at-home decree unconstitutional.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The United States was scheduled to resume deportation flights to Guatemala Tuesday, nearly a month after the Central American country refused to accept them.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As the coronavirus claims tens of thousands of lives in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro is focused on ensuring his political survival and mobilizing his far-right supporters to do so.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday he does not plan to get tested for the novel coronavirus, one day after the announcement that a high-ranking member of his administration he’d recently been in contact with was infected.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances sued the U.S. territorial government on Monday, asking courts to order it to provide documents related to a failed multimillion-dollar purchase of COVID-19 testing kits and other medical supplies.

La iniciativa del Gobierno sólo atiende a los que residen en asilos, que representan solo un 3% de la población de adultos mayores en la isla.

On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks with Damali Vidot, a Chelsea City Councilor and 2020 candidate for State Representative.

The data trends presented here suggest that people of color have borne the brunt of the COVID-19 virus and the pandemic is nowhere over yet.