Bulletin #1 Central American Isthmian Reflections

CLACSO Working Group The Central American Isthmus: Rethinking the Centers
Newsletter Central American Isthmian Reflections 
Year 1 – Issue #1 «COVID-19: Pandemic and pandemonium in Central America
July 2020

Table of Contents

1. Presentation
   
2. “Community spirit”. Inequality and pandemic in Guatemala
   Lina Barrios
   
3. COVID-19 and the possibilities of imagining ourselves in Guatemala
   Carlos Gerardo González
   
4. COVID-19 – Nicaragua. The case of a mass contagion foretold
   Dolene Miller
   
5. COVID-19 in Costa Rica. The dialectic of “social distancing”: flattening the epidemiological curve, widening social inequality
   Sergio Villena Fiengo
   
6. Non-Covidian situations. Reflections on quarantine in Costa Rica
   Nelise Wielewski Narloch
   
7. Panama: The pandemic affecting the working class
   Briseida Barrantes Serrano
   
8. Access to healthcare for Central American migrants in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic
   Valeria Marina Valle; Caroline Irene Deschak
   
9. Salvadoran protests and prophets
   Hilary Goodfriend