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Latin America crosses a bleak milestone Ishaan Tharoor , including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. © Mario Tama/Getty Images People gather near a shrine in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday that marks the number of covid-19 deaths. The coronavirus has claimed more than 1 million lives in Latin America and the Caribbean, with nearly half of those deaths in Brazil. As of Friday, the coronavirus-related death toll in Latin America and the Caribbean surpassed 1 million people, according to the U.N. Pan American Health Organization. Almost 90 percent of these deaths took place in five major countries in the region Brazil (around 44 percent), Mexico (22 percent), Colombia (8 percent), Argentina (7 percent) and Peru (nearly 7 percent). In some of these countries, the official number of coronavirus deaths may be only a fraction of the real total. But the overall trend lines for Latin America have been gri

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