Image: Aldeia Guarani/Kaiowá, Dourados (Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil). Photo: Maximino Rodrigues   (This is the first dispatch in our series COVID-19 in Latin America: Dispatches from the Southern Frontlines.) Translated by Jens Andermann Dear readers, and everyone interested in this situation, which frightens all people of this earth, the water planet. We live amidst so many diversities that today we get confused even about the kind of people we are, even though we are the first inhabitants of this land called tekoha guasú (the great land). At this difficult time, our Indigenous people here at the village where we…

DOSSIER: COVID-19 in Latin America: Dispatches from the Southern Frontlines Introduction The outbreak of coronavirus with early epicenters in Eastern Asia, Europe, and the United States, has been followed more recently by increasingly alarming health emergencies across the Global South, with India, Southern and Central Africa reporting exponential surges of deaths and infections in May and June. But it is in Latin America where the pandemic is now threatening to explode into dimensions unseen even at the previous epicenters’ peak points, with Brazil now reporting the highest daily numbers of infections and deaths worldwide and other countries including Chile, Ecuador,…