URUGUAY: Diversity under the pandemic

In Latin America, the big exception to the virtual rule was Uruguay, where the Diversity March held in the capital, Montevideo, in September gathered thousands of masked people in the largest public event since the pandemic struck. This was also an exception for Uruguay, where other annual events took place online in 2020. The Diversity March’s decision not to go virtual was presented as part of the movement’s strategy of ‘neither regressing on rights nor taking a step backwards.’ As a precautionary measure, however, the organisers chose an alternative route through a wider avenue more conducive to physical distancing, and cancelled the usual artistic and musical performances that attract crowds, offering instead a collective reading of a proclamation before dispersing.