Testimonios

The pandemic experience of COVID-19 in Latin America reaches us mostly in the form of aggregate numbers and summary overviews, often in random intervals and almost always from a distance. This space is designed to offer access to voices from Latin America as a chronicle of the experience of daily life within the pandemic–testimonios, in a word–from Carolina students, past and present, as well as from friends and colleagues in Latin America with personal and professional ties to the Carolina community.

Colombia: Protests, Post-Conflict, and a Pandemic

Colombia erupted in a wave of protests and mass mobilizations in November 2019. Major highways, shopping malls, city plazas, and street roads were filled with multiple and sometimes impromptu manifestations.
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The Maladies and Virtues in an Island Colony

We had experienced the silence of curfew not so long ago in the city of San Juan. But the silence of a collapsed island after a hurricane in 2017 was different...
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Teaching in Guatemala

My journey with a program called The International Educator, which matches your resume with postings from international schools, led me to an international school in Guatemala City, Guatemala...
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COVID-19 Response and Sustainable Development

Costa Rica is known for its relaxed, yet efficient way of life and the nation’s COVID-19 response has been informed by this cultural attitude.
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Reincidentes de lucha

Reincidentes ante tanto sin dejar de luchar. Así hemos sido por los pasados años los que vivimos en Puerto Rico con una historia de desastres.
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La Vida Cotidiana

El coronavirus entró en La Habana sin de su presencia. Ya las autoridades estaban informadas sobre la pandemia, pero nosotros comenzamos a percibirla, después del cierre de las fronteras en el aeropuerto, en el mes de marzo...
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Dispatch from Quito

I’ve watched the coronavirus crisis unfold from a quiet street in the suburbs of Quito, where I’m living with my family while on a research fellowship in Ecuador...
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COVID-19 in Peru

I was doing fieldwork in a rural community in Anta, Peru when the president closed the borders and instituted quarantine...
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Coastal Ecuador

Don Juan is a small fishing village on the Pacific coast of Ecuador in the Manabí region. This place of about 300 families with an average...
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Buenos Aires Quarantine

Walking along the usually busy streets of Boedo, a traditional, residential Buenos Aires neighborhood known for its tango and literature, the first thing I notice is the silence...
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Colombia and the World

In the country with more than 60 years of armed conflict, COVID-19 is the first time that the whole country shut down. This time, the menace is not the drug...
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"El Coronavirus" in Cuba

During regular work hours, you can usually spot me on the phone finessing logistics while dodging honking motorbikes and vegetable carts throughout the streets of Havana...
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