COVID-19 in Latin America: Signs of Deepening Crisis and Hope

Latin America has become an epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, with nations struggling to control the outbreak as governments ease restrictions and begin to reopen amid spiking infections and death. Those being hit the hardest are the most vulnerable: migrants, the urban poor and indigenous communities. FIU experts on public health and on the region will join top economic and health officials from Latin America to assess the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic, including on indigenous peoples, as well as how government responses have led to vastly different outcomes.