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Abstract

Latin American academic and press literature tends to uncritically recover the discourse of the government of the People's Republic of China on relations with Latin America and the Caribbean. This attitude tends to overestimate the role of the Chinese government and underestimate that of the United States in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Contrary to the dominant current in Latin America and the Caribbean, the text analyzes the participation of both governments in the provision of health supplies and vaccines COVID-19 within the government-to-government frameworks and in the multilateral structures of the Pan American Health Organization, to demonstrate that the US authorities have been more proactive than the Chinese.