Pandemic, governance and collective construction of the future

A security guard with a sign asking for a safety distance, in a park in Bogotá (Colombia) .RAUL ARBOLEDA / AFP

The covid-19 pandemic that affects the world has deepened in recent weeks in Latin America.

The health, humanitarian and economic aspects of this crisis, widely publicized and tragic in themselves, have no historical precedent.

Solving and rebuilding will take time and a lot of collective effort.

However, as is the case with the effects of the virus on organisms with pre-existing medical conditions, our societies are more affected by chronic pre-pandemic structural weaknesses: high inequality, fragmented social contracts, low productivity and c ...

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