Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard speaks while holding a document with the conclusions made at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States during a new conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Saturday, September 18, 2021
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LATIN American leaders have announced the foundation of a regional health agency to help fight Covid-19, as well as condemning Washington’s bullying and rich nations’ vaccine hoarding.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) summit, held in Mexico City over the weekend, that “our region has more Covid-19 related deaths than any other region in the world. It has been extremely difficult to get vaccines. It is unfair, abusive that so many countries do not have access to vaccines.”
Reports from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism published in February accused pharmaceutical giant Pfizer of “playing hardball” in negotiations over vaccine supply in Latin America, telling Argentina and Brazil to put up sovereign assets including military bases and federal bank reserves as collateral to guarantee its profits.
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