Tag: poverty latin america
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Sandra Contreras, camped outside Lima’s Villa el Salvador hospital, is running out of funds to pay for her mother’s COVID-19 treatment, a sign of thin welfare systems around Latin America that are dragging many...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - According to an Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) study, in 2020 the number of poor in Latin America and the Caribbean rose to 209 million, 22 million more than the...