Isadora Romero: Delivery Drivers in Latin America are Facing Hostility and Mistreatment
Isadora Romero
The pandemic forced migrants in Latin America to turn to delivery driver gigs. In a visual report, Isadora Romero sheds light on the hostility and mistreatment they have faced.
Produced with support from the Henry Luce Foundation for a Magnum Foundation initiative to document the global health crisis through a variety of perspectives.
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“When Quito entered lockdown in March 2020, the streets of Ecuador’s hilly Andean capital didn’t quite empty out. A small army of cyclists and motorbike drivers, wrapped in brightly colored jackets, continue to zoom around the city, ferrying goods for popular food-delivery apps…‘We are helping society because people don’t want to go out right now—when you don’t want to go, we’re the ones who go,’ says Yuly Ramirez, a Venezuelan migrant who started working as a delivery driver for Glovo, one of the region’s biggest platforms, in 2018. ‘But instead of seeing us like that, they see us as a nuisance.’”