Jailed forced migrants & refugees quarantined in U.S., as Cuba shows a different path

Mar 30

ICE Detainees Are Being Quarantined
A leaked document about the Department of Homeland Security’s Covid-19 response suggests that the crisis has made its way to border detention facilities.

By Ken Klippenstein, MARCH 24, 2020

US Immigration detention center (jail), McAllen, Texas (Josh Dawsey / The Washington Post via AP, Pool) — US Immigration detention center (jail), McAllen, Texas
(Josh Dawsey / The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Cuba’s Welcome to a Covid-19-Stricken Cruise Ship Reflects a Long Pattern of Global Humanitarian Commitment
By Peter Kornbluh, MARCH 21, 2020

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"Honduras and Guatemala are countries of pandemics: the pandemics of hunger and no access to water, of dengue, corruption, repression, and today of Covid-19. All these pandemics are inter-related. Focusing actions and resources on one pandemic –COVID-19- without an integral approach strategy, only deepens the others. That is, there will be more people living with hunger, dengue, lack of water and loss of resources due to corruption and repression."
(Adapted from statement by Dr. Juan Almendares Bonilla,
Honduran physician, former university rector)

Grahame Russell

Jailed forced migrants & refugees quarantined in U.S., as Cuba shows a different path

COVID-19 Response Fund, Guatemala and Honduras Exploited, discriminated communities taking the lead on Covid-19 prevention and emergency support work

OFRANEH & Garifuna people responding to COVID-19

“Our privileges are located on the same map as their suffering, and may - in ways we prefer not to imagine - be linked to their suffering. As the wealth of some may imply the destitution of others.”