Latin America's COVID-19 victims, and the spaces they leave behind

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Latin America's COVID-19 victims, and the spaces they leave behind

Coronavirus has claimed nearly one million lives, about a third of those in Latin America

Published: September 25, 2020 16:52 AFP and Compiled by Christian Borbon, Senior Web Editor

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Copy of 711345-01-02-1601029802948 — A chair, plant, paintings and a Catrina figure, all which belonged to Hebert Axel Gonzalez, a theatre director who died of COVID-19 in April, now decorate the entrance of his partner Carlos Corro's house in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711378-01-02-1601029834016 — Posters of five members of the Diaz family who died from COVID-19 are seen pasted on a wall of the living room of their home in Chorrillos, south of Lima, Peru. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711350-01-02-1601029799573 — A view of Regina Eleonora's house, mother of late nurse Alan Patrick who died in April 22 victim of COVID-19, in Rio de Janeiro. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711358-01-02-1601029796278 — The room of the late Paulo Roberto -a COVID-19 victim- where he watched films, documentaries and slept every day, in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711379-01-02-1601029830939 — A pair of sandals under a hammock, which belonged to Joaquin Barrera, a victim of COVID-19, at his home in Santiago Nonualco, El Salvador. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711384-01-02-1601029827693 — Aa photo and jewellery which belonged to Honduran journalist David Romero, head of Globo radio and TV station, who died of complications from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 on July 18, taken at his house in Tegucigalpa. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711333-01-02-1601029819041 — The bed where Venezuelan Wilmer Arcadio Hernandez, 63, died from COVID-19 in his home in Villa Maria del Triunfo, south of Lima, Peru. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711370-01-02-1601029844255 — A guitar belonging to the late Paulo Roberto -a COVID-19 victim- at his house in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711336-01-02-1601029816192 — An altar in homage to Wilfredo Davila Minano -a victim of COVID-19- is seen at the ceviche restaurant he owned (currently closed) in Trujillo, Peru. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711363-01-02-1601029847655 — A picture of Hebert Axel Gonzalez, a theatre director who died of COVID-19 in April, is seen on a computer screen at his partner's house in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711375-01-02-1601029836878 — The bedroom of Mexican stretcher-bearer Hugo Lopez Camacho, who died following a COVID-19 infection, in Mexico City. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711339-01-02-1601029810100 — A chair belonging to Salvadoran photojournalist Franklin Rivera, 52, who died from COVID-19, at the yard of his home in Ciudad Delgado, El Salvador. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711373-01-02-1601029841129 — The couch where Oscar Farias, who died of COVID-19 on April 27, sat to watch TV at his son's house in Buenos Aires. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711360-01-02-1601029792742 — The bedroom of Mexican nurse Juana Silva Isidoro, who died of COVID-19, taken at her house in Xochimilco neighbourhood in Mexico City. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 711330-01-02-1601029825124 — The bedroom of Hugo Dutra, 25, who died of COVID-19 at the Quilombo Sacopa in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Image Credit: AFP

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