Mexican newspaper La Silla Rota featured the Atlas of Vulnerability by Jubilee USA and LATINDADD in an article about how existing crises are exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read an excerpt below (translated from Spanish) and find the full article here.

Mexico, Poor or Middle-Class Country?

According to the report entitled Vulnerability Atlas, the pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean documents that 48.8 percent of the Mexican population lives in poverty, while in Honduras 64.7 and in Guatemala, 59.3 percent. With this, Mexico is far from the countries that registered the best conditions, since Chile, Uruguay and Panama only have 10.8, 11.6 and 20.7 percent of their respective populations in precarious income.

According to Latindadd, poverty acts as an amplifying factor of the economic and health impacts left by the covid-19 pandemic.

Read the full article here.