COVID-19

ICE has started to report COVID-19 cases at their detention facilities. Latino USA speaks with two people who have been following the story.

With its biggest one-day jump yet, New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus officially eclipsed the number of those killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11.

As Americans line up at grocery stores for supplies during the current crisis, farmworkers are putting themselves at risk to harvest our food.

MIAMI (AP) — Until a month ago, Diana Leticia Hernández sold face cream door to door in Miami. Her husband painted houses. The money fed their family and at least six relatives in Honduras.

MIAMI (AP) — They whiled away the week on a sex- and drug-fueled romp: dancing on white-sand beaches and frolicking on a paradisaical Caribbean island with prostitutes from Europe, some snapping selfies with famous reggaetón artists.

Passenger flow from the areas of largest spread of the virus in the United States has decreased but has not stopped. Those areas also have the highest concentrations of Puerto Rican residing there. That is coupled with the fact that island airports did not take preventive health measures for weeks, and tracing people who were in contact with positive COVID-19 cases has not begun.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — As Colombia continues with a nationwide lockdown to control the new coronavirus, some of the millions of Venezuelans who have gone abroad in recent years are deciding they are better off back in their homeland.

Most of these workers are employed seasonally to perform the hard manual labor of cultivating and harvesting crops. One-half to three-quarters of them were born outside of the United States, with the majority holding Mexican citizenship.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday there will be no huge economic stimulus program as the country faces the threat of coronavirus-induced crisis almost certainly unlike any it has seen in the past century.

La historia nos ha demostrado que los incumbentes se benefician políticamente durante momentos de crisis por lo que Trump y Vázquez no son la excepción.

The pandemic has spotlighted the wide gap between rich and poor in Peru and elsewhere in Latin America, and economists say a looming recession worse than any since World War II could push the continent’s long-suffering poor into even more dire circumstances.

While a canceled request for N95s is a move in the right direction, the agency must take it a step further. The fact remains that ICE still holds an untold amount of PPE being used for raids.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The ACLU said Sunday it is seeking an injunction to block part of Puerto Rico’s strict curfew against the new coronavirus, arguing that some of its restrictions are unconstitutional as the governor imposed even tighter measures, including requiring anyone entering a business to wear a face mask.

Latino Rebels Radio: April 5, 2020

El flujo de viajeros desde las zonas de mayor propagación del virus en Estados Unidos se ha reducido, pero no se ha detenido. Esas zonas coinciden con las de mayor cantidad de puertorriqueños allá. A esto se suma que en los aeropuertos de la isla no se tomaron medidas de sanidad durante semanas y no ha iniciado el rastreo de personas que estuvieron en contacto con casos positivos a COVID-19.

CHICAGO — To be undocumented means, first, to be on the run. Then, on the lookout. Always.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian health officials grappling with the new coronavirus outbreak have issued a stark warning about a lack of hospital beds, masks, testing devices and trained staff across Latin America’s largest nation.

Juan is a real person but this is not his name. He has been working for more than three years at the Bayamon Regional Hospital in Puerto Rico, where critical COVID-19 cases are taken. He fears losing his job for speaking out what he is seeing.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The suspected mismanagement of essential supplies during Hurricane Maria turned out to be a boon for Puerto Rico as it fights a rise in coronavirus cases.

I have a new purpose in creating joy and being present for those who join me on the other side of the screen.

We need a Shadow, if not a Cinqué—or even a V.