What kind of Covid-19 response do you think these U.S. and Canadian-backed drug-trafficking regimes are providing for their majority populations?

Covid19 is a serious health challenge to humans. However, the real problems multiplying and worsening the impact of Covid19 are deeply entrenches systems of human inequality, discrimination and violence.

In the midst of Covid19, and as part of a multi-year effort led by the U.S. and Canada’s ‘Lima Group’ of repressive Latin American regimes, a military attack was launched in Venezuela aimed at ‘regime changing’ the Venezuelan government.

Since March 15, 2020, Rights Action has sent close to $30,000 (ranging from $200 to $2000 grants) to community groups, mainly in Honduras and Guatemala, that are responding to Covid19, a pandemic that is worsening the “normal” pandemics of exploitation-poverty and discrimination, land dispossession, human rights violations and repression.

The spectacularly corrupt and violent situation in Honduras is U.S. and Canadian policy at work, and the situation just got worse.

While Hudbay benefits from a Covid19-related suspension of landmark lawsuits in Canada related to gang-rapes, murder, aggravated assault at it’s former mine in Guatemala, Hudbay continues operating it’s mine in Peru, putting workers’ and the public’s lives at risk.

"Most people in this country live day by day.
You sell some socks and you buy some eggs.
They are hungry and they have to go out."

“The most misleading cliche about Covid19 is that it treats us all the same. It doesn’t, neither medically nor economically, socially or psychologically. In particular, Covid-19 exacerbates preexisting conditions of inequality wherever it arrives. Before long, this will cause social turmoil, up to and including uprisings and revolutions.”
(Andreas Kluth)

Unless one means “we are all in this together” literally, like during the times of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slave-based economies in the European-colonized lands of the Americas, then no we are not “all in this together”. Covid19 – and its varying direct and indirect impacts on humans inside nations and between nations across the planet – is exposing profound fault-lines of wealth and power / exploitation-poverty and powerlessness, and of racism.