ABOVE: A photo taken from Brian Enquist’s hotel room shows the empty streets of Cusco.
BRIAN ENQUIST
Update (March 27): Members of the course who are US citizens or permanent residents left Peru yesterday on a charter flight arranged by the US State Department. Enquist says a few students from other countries are still in Cusco, and that instructors continue to try to make arrangements to get them out.
Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Guatemala have all closed their borders to foreigners in an effort to contain COVID-19, Buzzfeed News reports, halting both inbound and outbound trips and stranding hundreds of travelers in Latin America. Among them are a multinational group of 27 students and professors involved in a course on studying how plant traits are changing as a result of climate change and fire, which had been slated to run from March 9–22 near Manú National ...
