Covid-19: Racialized pandemic or structural problem? Perceptions from the experience in Colombia and the region

Abstract

The way in which Colombia and the countries of the region have faced the effects and transformations derived from the Covid-19 pandemic, put in the light the disparity in Latin-American
societies and the multiple affectations on social and economic life. Although the virus doesn’t
discriminate in terms of contagions, a differential factor such as the socioeconomic vulnerability of the black populations because of the dynamics of exclusion and domination allow us to
question the racialized character of the pandemic. That is why this paper exposes how the circumstances in which individuals and communities face the crisis are not at all equal or equitable
within the framework of the postulates of some positions from the economic thought.