Argentina: The Convergence of COVID-19 and Institutional Violence

Systematic practices of discrimination against indigenous people and working class youth have found an outlet in measures to contain the pandemic in Argentina.On March 20, 2020, the Argentine government declared a strict lockdown as a consequence of the first cases of local transmission of COVID-19 reported in Buenos Aires. While the virus rapidly spread in middle-class neighborhoods of the city, on April 21 the first case in the city?s low-income urban neighborhood of Barrio Mugica was reported. Within a month there were 200 cases in this heavily populated neighborhood.Fil: Hirsch, Silvia. Universidad Nacional de San Martin. Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales. Centro de Estudios En Antropología; ArgentinaFil: Mastrangelo, Andrea Veronica. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Dirección Nacional de Instituto de Investigación.Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud "Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán"; ArgentinaPandemic discourses. A collaboration between the India China Institute and the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School.Nueva YorkEstados UnidosIndia China InstituteThe New School. Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affair