Karla Zabludovsky is the Mexico bureau chief and Latin America correspondent for BuzzFeed News and is based in Mexico City.
The death of patient #10451 in Guatemala's only psychiatric hospital revealed a life that slipped through the cracks even before the pandemic cut it short.
Jair Bolsonaro downplayed the virus until he contracted it in July, and like Trump, promoted hydroxychloroquine as a therapy. His approval numbers surged after he recovered, but some say that wasn’t due to his improved health.
出稼ぎに行った息子を新型コロナで亡くしたメキシコ在住の女性。生活費用を息子の仕送りで賄っていたため、彼女は新たな貧困の壁に直面している。
“He never returned on his own two feet … He came back to me as dust.”
“The US is no longer an example for other countries to follow.”
"This week has been one of the most stressful weeks ever."
“I feel humiliated. We were doubly hit: not given medical attention and not given the body of our father.”
For thousands of women in Mexico, the pandemic has meant a double threat: the risk of getting infected by the coronavirus and the danger of being quarantined at home with an abusive partner.
A Mexican man was found dead from blunt trauma to the head after being detained by the police for not wearing a mask in public.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been forced to apologize after insinuating that doctors were greedy.
The death of patient #10451 in Guatemala's only psychiatric hospital revealed a life that slipped through the cracks even before the pandemic cut it short.
Jair Bolsonaro downplayed the virus until he contracted it in July, and like Trump, promoted hydroxychloroquine as a therapy. His approval numbers surged after he recovered, but some say that wasn’t due to his improved health.
The violent attack on a small-town mayor in Bolivia shocked the world. This is her story.
“The US is no longer an example for other countries to follow.”
Lucía was raped at 11. Her family’s demands for a legal abortion became the center of a global firestorm — and she still doesn’t know the whole story.
“I feel humiliated. We were doubly hit: not given medical attention and not given the body of our father.”
From Guatemala to Peru to Argentina, Americans are stranded as the global pandemic wreaks havoc on travel plans. The US has abandoned them, they say.
違法な中絶を2度、自ら行い、なんとか生き延びた女性は今、闇市場で経口避妊薬を販売している。経済と政治の危機が深刻化するベネズエラの女性たちを助けるためだ。
A wall goes up in Argentina and then anti-immigrant rhetoric spreads. Will it change the course of a region bent on tearing down borders?
Kate del Castillo arranged the meeting between actor Sean Penn and Mexico's most infamous drug lord — and by the way, she has a new tequila brand.