Covid-19 Is Trapping Ecuador Between Death and Debt

Posted on AllSides April 19th, 2020
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Sometime late last month the bodies began to turn up on the streets of Guayaquil. Some of the dead were abandoned in dumpsters. Others had been bundled in plastic and left on the sidewalks of this seaside Ecuadoran city, the yellow and black plastic cordon suggesting an unsolved crime scene.

While most of Latin America is bracing for the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, Ecuador is already overwhelmed. The Andean nation of 17.5 million people is proportionately South America’s most afflicted: Only Brazil has a higher death count, with three...

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-08/coronavirus-traps-ecuador-between-death-and-debt

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