Condemned to Repetition

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Thus  even in this moment when the US public sentiment is in favor of isolationism, the US  had to intervene in the region to enforce rule of law or the land of the free will soon be surrounded by a collection of territories that could be described as modern Port Royals or safe havens for bandits. In terms of infrastructure hospitals and clinics  have not seen innovation enter their halls since WWII. As a result there was not a system in place to deal with a pandemic let alone the facilities or the staff  for treatment of patients. In terms of quenching the pandemic curve, to this day the only countries that have succeeded are those that opportunely identified those people carrying  contagion and isolated them sternly. Fortunately enough it seems like  many states in the US and countries in Latin America are seeking the advise of Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland ad New Zealand  to face this catastrophic turn of events. These nations will most probably explain the United States how to better deploy the software and hardware it created in modernizing health care and effectively battle this 21st century nemesis. These nations will also teach Latin America what not to do in this crisis and how to extract the best value of their limited infrastructure.

AL PACINO EN EL CARIBE

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El Caribe es para muchos tan idílico, particularmente, por sus playas, mar cálido y el color del cielo, privilegios que inducen a que lo consideren un paraíso. Pareciera, sin embargo, que durante la conquista, más que estas razones, fueron otras las que determinaron que españoles, ingleses, holandeses, franceses y portugueses enviaran sus barcos armados a apropiarse de tan placentera región, la cual en tiempos no tan lejanos ha sido, por cierto, objeto de una diversidad de negociaciones concernientes al gobierno, a la soberanía y a sus recursos. A nivel internacional, agregaríamos que las Naciones Unidas han calificado a América Latina como un continente comprometido. Pero con el grave señalamiento de que la producción y el comercio de la droga es la fuente, alimentada por las paupérrimas condiciones económicas, acompañado de la grave imputación de la concurrencia política.

TO OVERCOME THE CORONAVIRUS FORCES US TO CHANGE SOCIAL RELATIONS’ PARADIGMS IN ORDER TO RESTORE NORMAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING.

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The Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has paralyzed the world forcing governments to subject their peoples to confinement in order to control the emergency.  This measure is taking the planet’s nearly 600 million people to poverty. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered, and in some cases superseded, our social behavioral models.  It has fractured the people’s routine, and compels everyone to new behaviors such as the “social distancing”. With prolonged quarantines and confinements, there is no way to compensate the informally employed for lost income, nor is there a way to provide them the means for survival, which takes those who are most negatively impacted to sooner than later to have cause for rejection and non-compliance with control measures, creating scenarios to activate destabilization of governments and attempt against freedom, human rights and democracy. This is why it becomes urgent to include the political element in crisis management, so that leaders and governments from throughout the world activate, as soon as possible, the mechanisms to forsake quarantines and confinements.  To push a change of social relations’ paradigms and activate the society at-large with measures that prevent the spread of the disease but that do not strangle the citizenry, condemning them to misery and disregard.