Introducing a New Series on the Legacy of the COVID-19 Pandemic across Latin America

The pandemic revealed the weakness of the region’s economies and the ineffectiveness (and incapacity) of national governments in softening its impact

As prospects of a fifth wave of COVID-19 had intensified in various part of the world, The Prisma launched a new series on the legacy of the first two years of the pandemic for the people and the economies of Latin America.  The pandemic brought with it three distinct, yet related crises that kept feeding each other: the health, the political and the economic crisis exacerbated by high levels of inequality and informality.