LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN IN THE RISK ZONE: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE DOCTRINE OF SHOCK

Abstract

This article is postulated as a warning regarding the eventual use of the crisis situation caused -or, rather, exacerbated- by ​​the COVID-19 pandemic in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, through an analysis based on the "Shock Doctrine" postulated by Canadian writer, journalist and activist Naomi Klein. After a historical review where her arguments can be found, the work analyzes for what reasons I interpret that the human right to health of the citizens of our region is under threat, in the context of the current pandemic. To conclude, I maintain and seek to justify that Latin American Bioethics can be effective to approach it critically and with solid humanistic and rational arguments, raising the voice in the different fields against any pretense of underestimating the quality of the human right of the right to health and, with this, the role of the State as guarantor of the dignity of the person and fundamental rights.