"[PRONUNCIAMIENTO] COVID-19: In the face of the crisis, it is urgent to stop authoritarianism and defend life, care, rights and human dignity", March 20, 2020

... The crisis caused by the global eruption of COVID-19 reaches a world that is already facing serious crises ... and expresses the unsustainability of the prevailing political, social and economic model on the planet, reproduced by States increasingly controlled by interests private ...

This model, based on "capitalist, racist and patriarchal" depredation ... for decades has focused on markets and neoliberal logics, destroying institutional, community and cultural structures of collective care, leaving most people without access to a dignified life…

We are concerned that governments take advantage of this crisis to deepen and normalize before the public opinion their policies of social control, repression and persecution against activists and human rights defenders ...

In Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, emergency plans have been implemented based on militarization, the suspension of fundamental rights or curfews, strengthening authoritarianism and deteriorating the ways of survival of a large part of the population. In Mexico, the structural conditions of social vulnerability to face this crisis are evident. In Nicaragua, we are concerned that the Government will omit its responsibility in the response to the health emergency and deny access to health information ...