Latin America: UN urges collaboration to prevent economic crisis
UN warns that poverty across the region will rise by 7 percent, an increase equivalent to 45 million people.
The United Nations secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, has warned that the coronavirus pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean will plunge millions of people into poverty.
Launching a policy brief on the future of the region, he added that 18 million people would lose their jobs, with the worst affected being women and Black and Indigenous communities.
Al Jazeera’s Daniel Schweimler reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Published On 10 Jul 2020