Will COVID-19 recovery in South America's top migrant-host countries succeed without vaccinating all Venezuelan migrants? In a new blog post for the Latin American Program, Nicolás Forero-Villarreal and Jacqueline Mazza review national vaccination plans in South America's top six migrant-hosting nations. They find that most countries require that Venezuelans have legal residence in order to be eligible for a vaccine. According to the authors, "Latin America may be taking yet another gamble with its precarious recovery: that full health and economic recovery from COVID-19 will still be possible while leaving millions of Venezuelans within their borders without the vaccine."
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Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
