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People wait to receive food outside the Biblioteca Parque Estadual in downtown Rio de Janeiro. | Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg
The Covid-19 pandemic has sent a wave of poverty racing across Latin America, deepening declines that began over the past decade and consigning millions to lives of deprivation.
The world’s most unequal region saw 22 million people  the equivalent of everyone in New York state  join the ranks of the poor from 2019 to 2020, unable to meet basic needs. In all, about one-third of Latin America’s roughly 600 million residents live in poverty or what the United Nations defines as extreme poverty: subsisting on less than US$1.90 a day. ....

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