Covid-19 Shut Schools Across Latin America, and Children Joined Gangs

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“I ask myself, ‘Maybe if she stayed in school, had some way to keep her mind occupied, maybe we wouldn’t be at this cemetery.’” Covid-19 shut schools across Latin America, and children joined gangs.

PUERTO CACHICAMO, Colombia—The pandemic closed the only school in this remote hamlet, long a stronghold for Marxist guerrillas. With no internet connection for virtual classes, 16-year-old Danna Montilla told her family she was leaving to find work, but instead authorities say she joined a narco-trafficking rebel group.

Last month, Colombia’s military bombarded the group’s jungle camp, killing Danna, another underage girl and 10 others.

While the pandemic led to a global shutdown of schools, in Latin America the closures have been extreme. Stringent lockdowns have led children on average to miss far more class days than elsewhere in the world, according to Unicef. The U.N. agency estimates that Latin American children missed 159 school days on average over the past year, compared with the global average of 95. Only seven out of the 35 countries in the region have fully reopened schools, leaving 114 million young people out of the classroom in what Unicef has called an unfolding “generational catastrophe.”

 

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Oh the poor things. They should come to America where they will be welcomed without testing, given housing and money. Oh and free medical care.

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Well done globalist you've created the chaos you wanted. Your plandemic has destroyed lives.

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