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An isolated city on the Amazon illustrates why Peru has the highest COVID death rate in the world. One infectious disease expert called the country's awful record the result of a "perfect storm."
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They have to figure out how to distribute the vaccines — and keep their citizens interested in getting their jab — without knowing when supplies will arrive.
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COMMENTARY Pedro Castillo won the presidency in Peru thanks largely to corruption and other abuses there that South Florida expats largely shrugged at.
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Leninist party candidate Pedro Castillo appears to have narrowly won Peru's presidential election. Opponents, including South Florida expats, are claiming fraud.
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COMMENTARY The pandemic has finally given scientists more standing in Latin America. Let's hope that helps give the region's bad politicos less of it.
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"Glaring gaps" in access to COVID-19 vaccines are partially to blame for increasing infection rates in Peru, Argentina, Brazil and many other Latin American and Caribbean countries .
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COMMENTARY Socialists, a communist, a former guerrilla are presidential front-runners in South America thanks to conservative negligence and folly.
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COVID-19 cases and deaths are spiking anew in Latin America — and its spring break week could create superspreader conditions for a dangerous virus variant.
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Due to limited resources, delayed start-ups, chronic shortages — and official scandals — only a fraction of Latin America and the Caribbean has been inoculated.
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As if the region's coronavirus catastrophe wasn't enough, 2020 heaped human rights crises and historic hurricanes on Latin America and the Caribbean too.
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Manuel Merino became the country's president on Tuesday after Peru's Congress voted to oust President Martín Vizcarra. Merino lasted just days before Congress asked him to step down.
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COMMENTARYWe’re now familiar with websites from Johns Hopkins and Worldometer that grimly tally each country’s coronavirus cases and deaths. But unless…