Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The Trump administration has again tightened rules on issuing visas,

but this time it's gone after the kind given to highly skilled workers.

It's not clear just how much that will hobble industries such as tech,

but it seems certain to delight President Trump's base.

Southern France is Europe's biggest tourist draw, or it usually is.

This year, things are rather different.

Pretty much the only visitors are French.

The Riviera feels a little like it must have done in the 1950s.

Great for tourists, terrible for business.

First up, though, with more than 2 million infections and 100,000 deaths, Latin America has become a new center of the pandemic.

We've seen a persistent and progressive increase in cases in Central and South America, and it is of deep concern.

A lot of attention has been on Brazil, second only to America in numbers of infections and deaths.

But the coronavirus is also ripping through Brazil's neighbors, in a region with high urbanization and inequality,

where social distancing is less easy to enforce.

We have big cities like Rio, Sao Paulo, or Lima, in where they are surrounded by belt of poverty and inequity.

Lockdowns in Latin America have been varied, but many share one trait.

So far, they haven't worked. That's why it's

so worrying that countries in the region are already starting to open up. The pandemic in Latin

America took a while to accelerate. Richard Enzer is our Mexico City Bureau Chief.

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