The official argues that the younger generations should not “continue to lose socialization.”
The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, defended from Peru, where he is visiting, the return to face-to-face classes in the region.
“There has to be a very important social commitment regarding the restart of classes in our region; Our young generations cannot continue to lose socialization, they cannot continue to lose time in the classroom, ”Almagro pointed out.
He referred that the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to the educational system in Latin American countries, where tens of thousands of poor families lack the means for their children to receive virtual classes.
The secretary added that. In addition to going back to school, vaccination against coronavirus should be another priority among the governments and social sectors of the continent, reports Infobae.
“There has to be a very strong commitment from the international community in equitable access to vaccines, there has to be a very important social commitment regarding vaccination,” Almagro declared after meeting with the Peruvian president, Pedro Castillo in Lima.
The secretary met on Monday with Castillo’s chief of staff, Mirtha Vásquez, whom he congratulated for the rapid aid to the thousands of victims caused by the 7.5-magnitude earthquake that shook the jungle in the north of the country on Sunday.
He also congratulated Vasquez on the vaccination campaign against the virus, which has so far immunized 66% of the target population.
With 33 million inhabitants, Peru accumulates more than two million cases of COVID-19 and 201,000 deaths. It is the country with the highest mortality rate due to the pandemic, 6,101 deaths per million inhabitants, according to the balance of the AFP based on official figures.
Almagro spoke with Castillo six days before the Peruvian Congress, dominated by the right-wing opposition, votes whether to accept a three-party impeachment motion for the leftist president.
He also highlighted the agreements they signed with the president in matters of security and development of small and medium-sized companies.
Castillo, a 52-year-old rural teacher, won a close ballot last June against the right-wing Keiko Fujimori, but has been harassed by the opposition and by internal struggles in the ruling party for 120 days.
The impeachment motion has raised uncertainty in the country and is reminiscent of similar initiatives that led to the fall of presidents Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2018 and Martín Vizcarra in 2020.
Almagro stressed that the OAS will hold its 2022 General Assembly in Lima, the city where the Inter-American Democratic Charter was approved 20 years ago. (I)
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