The global covid-19 crisis in the Latin American region in the context of the north-south divide

Abstract

The global pandemic changed the world forever and altered our understanding of the current and future challenges that humanity faces. It influenced public sentiment, caused new trends, varied group aspirations and led to destructive processes. This article presents a cognitive model for analyzing the pandemic-related crisis in the Latin American region within the paradigm of neo-Marxism. For operational purposes, a decomposition of the conceptual “North-South” and “center-peripheral” divide was carried out, the features of modern international relations and the interpretation of global governance mechanisms were rethought. The article shows how the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the ruthless anti-humanism and selfishness of the “North” and the tendency to conserve extreme poverty of the “South”. It also revealed such deleterious effects of the pandemic as intensified trade wars and disrupted international logistics. The idea of globalization as the best model of interaction between “center” and “periphery” is in doubt. © 2022. All Rights Reserved.