Brazil breaks record with 4,195 deaths from COVID-19 in 24 hours
As Brazil breaks records with numbers of deaths and confirmed cases, a study done by PoderData reveals that significant sectors of Brazilian society believe that Bolsonaro is responsible for the health crisis
Tapi Yawalapiti: “My father died fighting for Indigenous peoples, defending the land”
A victim of COVID-19, chief Aritana Yawalapiti, historical leader of the Xingu, died on August 5
Kenyan federal government health workers begin national strike demanding promotions
The previous two nation-wide strike actions, notified in May and August against non-implementation of promotions, were called off after assurances from the government. Seeing no progress, workers have vowed to not resume work till demands are met
Pregnancy and labor during COVID-19
New Frame traces the coronavirus through the cycle of life in a series of intimate portraits from Gauteng. This is what new mothers are experiencing in the time of Covid-19.
Peru hit hard by second wave of COVID-19
Peru is reporting more than 7,000 new cases everyday and has the highest per capita death toll in the Latin American and Caribbean region
What explains the COVID-19 surge in Mexico?
Mexico has quickly become one of the hot-spots of the coronavirus pandemic, Mexican activist Magdiel Sánchez Quiroz discusses the different factors behind the increase
“Where is the money,” Hondurans ask government as health care system collapses
Recent revelations regarding massive corruption are the latest indicator of the rotten state of the health system on Honduras. Meanwhile, the forced disappearance of 4 Garifuna leaders has caused outrage with social movements launching protests
Victims of neoliberalism, poor countries face consequences in healthcare systems
The Tricontinental Institute gathered reports from healthcare professionals and analyzed the situation in some countries
Nijmie Zakkiyah Dzurinko: “State violence has many fronts”
Activist from Put People First! Pennsylvania discusses the denial of healthcare as an aspect of state violence and historic, systemic oppression of Black, Indigenous and working class people in the US
Cuban doctors arrive to South Africa
With a robust healthcare system and one of the world’s highest ratios of the number of doctors in a country to its population, the communist state has already sent over 1,200 doctors to 22 countries.
Public health and private profits under COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic might be devastating countries, the people and their livelihoods, but is good for some companies and their stockholders, like the ones that hold patents for N95 masks, lifesaving medicines or vaccines.
Painting an epidemic: An interview with Li Zhong (李钟)
Tings Chak of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research speaks to Li Zhong a Chinese painter who produced a series of paintings on the country’s heroic fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
- 26 million jobs were lost in Latin America and the Caribbean due to pandemic in one year, says ILO
- Syria asks UNSC to prevent Israel’s repeated attacks on its territory
- After 23-day hunger strike, undocumented workers in New York win USD 2.1 billion in assistance
- Palestinians welcome resumption of US aid to UNRWA
- US activists on hunger strike demand end to Yemen blockade
