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Trump Administration Cripples Latin America’s Ability to Fight Covid-19 | |
Mark L. Schneider | |
2020-07-02 | |
出版年 | 2020 |
国家 | 美国 |
领域 | 地球科学 ; 资源环境 |
英文摘要 | Trump Administration Cripples Latin America’s Ability to Fight Covid-19July 2, 2020 A version of this article was originally published by the Miami Herald on June 29, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic epicenter, in six months, has traveled from China to Italy, and Europe, then to the United States, and the rest of the Western Hemisphere. With far weaker health facilities, coronavirus deaths averaged more than 2,000 each day last week in Latin America and the Caribbean—half of all deaths worldwide and nearly three times the rate in the United States during that same time period. Yet, in another example of misguided foreign policy, the Trump administration is hurting, rather than helping, the countries of the Americas respond to the health, economic, and political impact of the coronavirus. A House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on July 1 was targeted directly at the administration’s failure to help the region. The public-health disaster already has had its own economic echo, with the United Nations predicting widespread hunger and the worst downturn since the Great Depression:
The administration seems blind to PAHO’s remarkable success in leading campaigns to eliminate smallpox, measles, and polio, despite wars and disasters, not to mention helping contain zika, dengue, and malaria. In 1985, I played a small role at PAHO, along with UNICEF, in getting El Salvador’s President Napoleon Duarte and the FMLN guerrillas—reached through the Catholic Church—to declare a cease-fire in the country’s civil conflict for three consecutive weekends each year to permit polio vaccination to take place. In 1994, the Americas became the first region in the world to certify that polio had been eradicated. The same use of “Health as a Bridge for Peace” saw PAHO once more play a key role a few weeks ago in Venezuela enabling National Assembly president Juan Guaidó and the Maduro regime to reach agreement on an independent, PAHO-coordinated coronavirus response, which the United States should help finance. Cutting off funding to PAHO, deporting migrants with coronavirus, and reprogramming or delaying three-quarters of appropriated development funds for Central America over the past four years have had consequences. Health centers and health workers have fewer resources and that means more coronavirus infections and more deaths. It is that simple. Mark L. Schneider is a senior adviser (non-resident) with the Americas Program and the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Commentary is produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a private, tax-exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues. Its research is nonpartisan and nonproprietary. CSIS does not take specific policy positions. Accordingly, all views, positions, and conclusions expressed in this publication should be understood to be solely those of the author(s). © 2020 by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. All rights reserved. |
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