New York's Mexican indigenous community is grappling with recent deaths from COVID-19 as these immigrants, whose language is Mixtec and not Spanish, face language barriers and bias.
With few opportunities to acquire land and houses, young men from the mountains started to migrate to New York City in the 1980s. New York City's influence on the region is evident in banners hung from palm trees in rural communities with the list of local products that can be sent to New York as well as the omnipresence of New York-style pizza shops in the region.
Paulino Rodriguez, the migrant advocate at Tlachinollan, said the majority of migrants send $300 to $500 a month or an estimated one third of their salary. Their families use this money for basic living costs, food, medicine, school uniforms and also to buy plots of land and build homes. When the pandemic hit, many of the immigrants in New York City lost their jobs in the service industry and stopped sending the remittances their families rely on home. Some families in Guerrero even started sending the money back to their loved ones in the U.S.
Community police in the mountain region of Malinaltepec in Mexico's Guerrero state maintain a roadblock to prevent the spread of COVID-19.As the pandemic's effects claim lives across Mexico, rural indigenous communities are blocking the passage of anyone from outside the region, a measure that helps detain the spread of the virus. The 400,000 people that live in these communities do not haveIt has, however, severely affected their already fragile economy.
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