Hello, and welcome to the Latin America Weekly newsletter! In this issue: The pandemic’s toll on education systems may stall development in the region for decades. Javier Milei’s kryptonite in Argentina. And the case against Iván Duque in Colombia.
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🚨 Just in: A new World Bank report projects GDP growth for Latin American countries ranging between Haiti’s -0.4 percent and Guyana’s 48 percent — fueled by its recently-discovered oil reserves. Brazil is expected to have the third-worst performance in the region at 1.5 percent.
- The standouts of the report are Panama (+6.3%), Colombia (+5.4%), and Argentina (+4.5%), though the latter will be dealing with other issues such as inflation, which local experts see breaching 70 percent this year.
Latin America’s education among hardest-hit due to lockdowns
The collateral damage of Covid lockdowns has been discussed mainly on economic terms, but their effect has reached far beyond that, from its impact on socialization to physical and mental health. In Latin America, education took a particularly heavy hit, with statistics putting the...