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Cuba: protestas y caminos al futuro
Nunca antes, desde el triunfo revolucionario de 1959, había tenido lugar en Cuba una protesta ciudadana con la envergadura de la del pasado domingo 11 de julio. Miles de cubanos de todas las edades y estratos sociales, en más de…
Chile’s Coal Phase-Out: Opportunities for a Just Transition
Chile’s initiative to fully phase out coal generation by 2040 will be critical for the Southern Cone country to comply with its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. However, despite the urgency of slashing Chile’s emissions, ensuring that…
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The pandemic has exposed and accentuated the region’s Achilles’ heel — extremely high levels of income equality. Latin America’s youth crisis — it is not hyperbolic… Read more +
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Deepening Cooperation and Coordination on Health Policy in the Americas
The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare fundamental weaknesses in political leadership, coordination, and health policy integration in the Western Hemisphere. The current geopolitical divides undermined the few mechanisms that were in place for effective cooperation on health governance. This white paper presented by the Inter-American Health Task Force, aims to understand better the lessons and challenges of the regional response to Covid-19 and appraise, in retrospect, how they were addressed and how they could have been addressed. The paper also makes specific recommendations. These recommendations are grouped into five areas geared toward improving cooperation and coordination in health policy to support regional Covid-19 response and recovery, as well as future health emergencies.