A social power cake. 2020 has been a lost here for south america in particular. The pandemic has been merciless in exposing the weaknesses of the continent. This is the coated 900 section of the cemetery in manalo the metropolis of the heart of brazils amazon in may it saw a steady flow of relatives coming in they didnt have long to say goodbye to their dead just a few minutes at the coffins before their loved ones are transported to their last resting places 5 coffins at a time they have to be fast. Only 5 relatives are allowed to bid farewell to each of the dead due to the risk of infection the number of mourners is limited lindys ramos his mother in law died aged 71 from the virus why. She died slowly 1st her kidneys failed then the virus attacked her brain but not her lungs finally she died there was no intensive care bad free for her thats why shes dead now. She was buried in a makeshift mass grave with no time for a funeral ceremony 4 times as many people as usual are currently being buried in man hours up to 120 burials a day. The Health Care System collapsed in april with a shortage of ventilators. Dead bodies are temporarily stored in cooler containers. Many of the Indigenous People in man hours are specially affected by the coronavirus experts say that there are mune system is more susceptible to viruses bernadino pareto of the to coon a tribe left the jungle 22 years ago to settle the man hours he shows us his tribes wonder drug in the crisis wild garlic is what they call the plants they use hoping to ward off the virus. We mix the ground leaves of the wild garlic an ice cold water import over the victims head it takes away the pain. A friend a banner genos to died at the beginning of may presumably of the effects of the corona virus many others here suffered from balance of fever and other virus symptoms. First of all my daughter had a temperature. She stayed home until it went away. And then my mother caught it but she also recovered even at her age she 75. Berna gino fears that his friend has died. No one knows whats going to happen in the coming weeks. The number of calls coming into the municipal Burial Service has exploded the head of the service had to rapidly increase her team to meet the demand for free social burials. We were not prepared for this we were shocked when the 1st coronavirus deaths came to mind now so we didnt expect the outbreak here to be this dramatic as. The emergency calls keep on coming now they have to pick up a deceased 41 year old he too is assumed to have died of covert 19 in the meantime theyre working around the clock to enable the burials of many socially disadvantaged victims the traffic jam holds them up before reaching their destination in a working class suburb there have already been many cases of the coronavirus here the family of the dead man called in a panic after they found out motionless in the bathroom he was a diabetic. For his brother the death came very suddenly after a brief serious illness with several of the covert 900 symptoms. Condition worsened within 3 days but he had died this morning at 7 oclock. What did he die of so you suddenly he couldnt breathe anymore. For volunteers family it is clear that he died of this new virus as they call covert 19 they are angry because they believe he could have survived. If an intensive care bed had been available to him he would still be alive today then we would have taken him to hospital rather than die there its better to die at home. Parallel to this tragedy another one is unfolding nearby brazils president both so not only is using the pandemic as an excuse to raise more and more of the amazon rain forest. Its obvious that the lawyers and gold diggers are not working from home during the Coronavirus Crisis a record amount of rain forest was destroyed in the period between january and may 2020 in april alone an area about the size of Lake Constance was chopped down but for bill so not os environment minister this is no cause for alarm on the contrary. We have to act now while we are unimpeded while the media is only talking about the coronavirus. We should quickly amend all of the laws for environmental protection. 2020 could see further record breaking deforestation as the ball so now the government is giving free rein to criminals more than ever during the pandemic. The illegal timber transports are rarely stopped. From brazils Environmental Police are fighting a losing battle they keep locating and destroying the machinery of the illegal gold diggers but Environmental Police funding has been cut under both so narrow so they are unable to carry out as many patrols as before. These missions are crucial for putting a stop to the criminal activity which has increased during the Coronavirus Crisis. 3 step. Process during the pandemic we have registered a steep rise in the number of criminal activities maybe the gold diggers thought that we wouldnt be working during the corona crisis but they are wrong. Right. After this mission to leading Environmental Police were transferred for disciplinary reasons but also not as environment minister. For Many Brazilians the destruction of the amazon rain forest is outweighed by the morning of the covert 900 victims relatives are angry about the precarious Health Care System that. Im not blaming the doctors its the governor who has messed up in the hospital where my grandmother was admitted they only had one ventilator. So. Many tragedies are currently unfolding in the amazon rain forest relatives who are filled with both pain and anger brazil is 2nd only to the us in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths. But one nation further west had a much higher death toll early on ecuador. The coastal city of wire kiel was at the epicenter of the pandemic. Long come on carter spent weeks on the move during march and april the reporter was travelling to the demonstrations almost daily in her home town. The anger of the population is huge. If. Not then them us and our wounds here have not healed theyre still open the tears are still flowing they havent dried up because of everything that has happened here the only real. Suddenly at the end of march dozens of people were lying dead for days in their flats or on the streets the all 4 days could not cope undeterred blanco went to meet a woman his father had been dead in his bedroom for 3 days. Why did you call the Emergency Services of cours they dont reply i sprinkled coffee all over my father because a neighbor advised me to but the smell now is terrible and im afraid i could get infected. People queue up for days at the cemetery entrances to bury their dead no one knows why the city has been hit so hard by the coronavirus blanco tells us that at 1st the government played down the events and. They tried to cover up the reality which was emerging more and more clearly if we talk about the freedom of speech yes they tried to silence us. The reporter was motivated to shed light on the truth affected Citizens Contact her on twitter there are hundreds of them lanka is shocked at the scale of it. I started getting scared about death it could affect me. While everyone is supposed to stay home blanco goes out despite her fear of the virus she wants those affected to be heard many large families live in small spaces the entire chat on family has a fever and a cough 2 of the brothers died in quick succession. I couldnt help my brothers i was so unwell myself. Attempts to call for help were all in vain we didnt get any help no doctor came to examine us. The Health Care System has long since collapsed here there was a shortage of medication and oxygen. They said he was doing well everything was fine i should go but now my husband has just died. Cardboard coffins too many dead the government later admitted that 5700. 00 more people had died inquired then in april of the Previous Year what exactly they died of is still unclear there was hardly any testing for covert 19 an aqua door but the cemetery has expanded. These weeks are an emotional roller coaster for blanca colleagues and friends have died when she comes home a dead neighbors lying in front of her building death is close at hand once again the most that that as a reporter your professional but you cant help but touching you personally. Then there is a new drama many of the dead have disappeared and their relatives cannot mourn at their graves. They checked the dead bodies in the containers but found nothing. Covered 19 has traumatized people and keel the government wants to find a new normality. It still has to deal with the present situation. What has happened to us has scarred us and someone will have to be accountable for that. Given the. Long term may pay a price for her courage and commitment in our last conversation she tells us that she has a sore throat feels weak and has applied for a coronavirus test. The pandemic has also shaken ecuadors neighbor peru. There has been a strict curfew here right from the start. In the capital lima the traffic that has not stopped is that of hearses. This hearses driver is a venezuelan she won for nighter. Im constantly afraid of getting infected or affecting my family when i come home. But i have to take the risk so that we have an income and food on the table. Around 20 venezuelan refugees work with a show on for peruvian undertakers they collect the bodies of those who have died of covert 19 a job with high risk. The deceased in this house was also infected with the virus you know when the. Doctor came did a blood test and confirmed that it was the virus. That. More and more venezuelans are caring for victims like this because peruvians are afraid of catching the virus. At the height of the refugee crisis hundreds of thousands of venezuelans left their crisis ridden country for peru they were quickly integrated as cheap laborers and the economy what was running well at the time now many are threatened with unemployment. At the same time perus Health Care System has reached its limits there is a shortage of oxygen in the hospitals patients relatives have to bring their own. Motors in which is done. My mother is 80 years old and we noticed early on that she had caught the coronavirus. No way about the due to her age she needs oxygen from here to be treated. At a given indoors you are going to need it but you know i mean. Its a logistical problem that perus government has been struggling with for weeks. Not that it but many of them are aware we bought this bottle of oxygen it was very expensive more than 1000 euro. Thats 4 times more than normal. If you dont have the money for it you die. Roofless oxygen trading is a sign of how weak the public Health Care System is in peru. The comparatively Strong Economy in peru is now in recession. Anyone who can be hired. It is an undertaker is happy to have a steady job. Even if such a job is not risk free for the many venezuelan refugees in peru. The situation on the other side of south america on the atlantic in Rio De Janeiro shows what role the economy plays. In one of the largest favelas in brazil j. C. Suarez had already set up her sugarcane press in april the sale of the sweet juice is her only income even now. Thats how much. Money because of the pandemic will close for 2 reeks but now im working again i have to pay the rent somehow. And its yet i know Many Brazilians enough of a little senior began working again just days after the pandemics outbreak self isolation or physical distancing not a chance this is mostly down to him brazils president also not of does not see the virus as dangerous it will be a start a good. Girl for if i get infected with corona i dont have to worry as a former athlete i wouldnt feel anything. At the worst a little flu or the sniffles therefore i do you the president is out mobilizing his supporters blithely shaking hands a fatal signal to the 1st village wellers where tipper kilo says has long existed now more and more corona deaths are being registered in the poorest districts. In Rio De Janeiro alone 2000000 people live in havana its barely possible to maintain social distancing often there are 7 people sleeping in one room. 140000 people live in mud a tightly packed into confined spaces circumstances in which the virus can quickly spread. Fernanda grew up here as a social worker she knows many of the favela inhabitants some are angered by both so noddle strategy of trivializing the virus. Might affect many neighbors regret voting for bush they say quite openly that they should have voted for a better candidate. The economic and social crisis is not likely to disappear soon. As specially not further south in argentina. In the socalled vision as the slums around when outsiderness more and more soup kitchens are being established this sausage soup is for the neighborhoods inhabitants who lost their jobs overnight. Its not official im not working at the moment so i have no income if you work illegally and like i do you cant even earn a center right now. Natalia cannot work as a cleaner at the moment there has been a strict curfew in argentina since march neighborhood cooperatives financed by state grants and donations are delivering food to needy families the volunteers cooked for hundreds of neighbors. We are cooking for the trash collectors who are now no longer allowed on to the streets to look for trash they can recycle. Were delivering their lunch to them. With each extension of the curfew more and more argentinians become dependent on projects like this the queues at soup kitchens are growing. The pandemic is exacerbating both the social crisis and argentinas debt crisis even before the pandemic argentina was unable to pay off its debts. President fernandez has to battle 2 crises at once the financial crisis and the health crisis. The allegro restaurant in when our side is for the owners marianna out of all and law in a papa said here these are extremely hard times the corona crisis is threatening their small business. With my not we were closed for a month but we realized that we would go broke if we didnt really open. Just like their country the 2 business women have to pay back their hideouts however they can. Tell me i will carry on working and our politicians should pay back their debts if that doesnt work then it doesnt work we want to know has always been in a bad way. But the corona crisis is pushing the already precarious economy of argentina further towards the brink. Just isnt prepared to make times Homeless People are struggling on the streets during the curfew they have nowhere to go there are hardly any donations at the moment. Most of the look really didnt want him you know weve always lived in fear and are hungry for us on a secondary. Argentinas pensioners belong to the coronavirus risk group even so many have to line up together to collect their pensions. Because of the virus i havent received any money for a month like many here i have to i have to pick up my pension in person. Experts say that argentina is the south American Country that will struggle the longest with the economic consequences of the pandemic. In chile the corona crisis has brought a major part of the reform process to a standstill. In the capital of santiago public life has long stood still a curfew was imposed in may as the number of infections suddenly shot up the Health Minister resigned and the president had to admit mistakes were made. To. Our Health Care System is subject to exceptional stress and is overstretched by the pandemic. The city center is deserted this is where people took to the streets in 2019 to demonstrate for a better social system the reform process that triggered has now come to a halt. This angers josephine the sara she is on her way to the soup kitchen with her daughter the jobless woman picks up food and at the same time is helping her district law victoria get through the crisis they mostly make soup which will saline works heres a volunteer for the residents of lab victoria. Bennett are you one this soup kitchen shows the solidarity of chile now in the pandemic were all helping so that people dont starve but on the ground since the poorest residents cant make it to the soup kitchen the food is delivered to them packed in styrofoam they try to follow the hygiene regulations as closely as possible so they can safely deliver to the many poor families in this outer suburb of the capital santiago. Many of the people here have lost their jobs during the pandemic. The economy has also crashed in chile. I need means you know its difficult at the moment with 2 children im pregnant and my husband hasnt had a job for months but out. There are all nearby there are often protests after weeks of quarantine residents are demanding help from the state the situation sometimes gets out of hand. When i mean im a dog hairdresser and the government isnt helping me at all but i have 4 children to feed what i call corona crisis economic crisis and social reforms which have been put on hold in chile the pandemic is causing growing anger large parts of the population. At the same time in brazil news hits like a bombshell. The. President bold so not all has tested positive for the coronavirus it changes little and is added to he still has his picture taken with supporters and live on camera he takes chloroquine a controversial drug in the treatment of covert 900 patients savills nuclear we know that the advocacy of corkran has not been scientifically proven but i believe in it what about you. While you look at the same time the longer the crisis lasts the more worried brazilians are becoming they fear financial ruin due to the pandemic. But also not all supporters are mobilizing trucks roll into the capital the drivers demanding a return to normality. Oh very much i want brazilians to go back to work our country can stand still as boston are open so everyone should be working otherwise well start. Also now though is a role model for them describing covered 19 as a little flu even though more than a 1000 people are dying of it each day doesnt bother them not even this father. Was there are everyone will catch it at some point theres no avoiding that everythings ok how about ok i got it. Its a yellow and green protest march they represent around a 3rd of all brazilians who are still backing president also not all. Paratroopers lined up in front of the president ial palace and also not all makes an appearance his fans all shout legend at the top of their voices. He even picks up a small boy dressed as a soldier from the audience in a time where physical contact should be avoided nobody here seems worried. While both so narrow supporters gather behind him. His opponents elsewhere are taking to the streets. Of football fans are the 1st to demonstrate against the president in the middle of the pandemic. They are against his ruthless style of leadership and his increasingly authoritarian tendencies the sickest money system what i see that guy in the capital stands for the spirit of racism and fascism but these we all trust are fighting against that but. These football fans from the Corinthians Club protested for. Basic Democratic Values during the military dictatorship now they can even count on the support of rival ultra groups. The anger at both so not us politics unites them all during the corona crisis. Our president also noro thinks that we ultra are terrorists but in truth he is a terrorist he is withholding corona emergency funds from brazilians and is not protecting them what kind of guy is that. A made all the Political Tension in the pandemic there is still a few moments of happiness. Or nardo and that talia are on their way to the registry office. But they wont get out of their car once they arrive the registrar is coming to them rather practical in coronavirus times its a drive thru wedding. You know as a nurse i work with corona patients and like many of them i could die so by getting married now i want to legally secure our partnership. The marriage certificate is ready in 10 minutes they want to get married now because brazils government does not have the virus under control both so noddles trivialization of the crisis angers and disgusts natale i. Want me i do not share boston i was opinion isolation is important you have to take the crisis seriously a lot of people are dying you cant stimulate the economy with the debt. They are now legally man and wife they Exchange Rings in the car of course even in times like these they cant go without a kiss. Some day they hope to have a big party to celebrate this unusual drive through wedding in the middle of the pandemic. 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