.... a quarter of Peru’s population does not have running water.
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.... Chile reveals the failure of a strategy for rich countries applied in a poor country.
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.... Despite the serious financial and economic situation facing the country, the strategy has allowed it to manage the pandemic. Time Magazine highlighted the good management of Argentina in a list of exemplary countries that include Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Germany, Iceland, the United Arab Emirates and Greece. [Xiii]
Several factors explain the control of the pandemic. First, despite the lack of investment in the health, education, science and technology sectors in the last government of Mauricio Macri (who eliminated the Ministry of Health to make it a Secretariat of the Ministry of Social Development), the country has a reasonably efficient hospital system compared to the rest of the region. In addition, although it has not been necessary, the beds of the private sector are at the service of the Ministry of Health due to the contingency.
Another factor to highlight is the clear and unique direction of the authorities, including those of the opposition parties. Although it is a federal republic, the governors of the different provinces have followed the directives issued by the president, who has reached 90% approval in handling the pandemic.
This says everything about the hard work accomplished already by the new President of Argentina, and his progressive predeccessors, with whom he also worked, President Néstor Kirchner, who pulled Argentina out of a horrendous deficit created by fascists, and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Thank god Argentina got the chance to ditch Macri through an election not long before the Corona virus arrived.
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