Spain Promises Ambitious Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America  

MADRID - Spain has promised to donate 7.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Latin American and Caribbean countries this summer as its vaccine diplomacy contrasts with the more cautious approach taken by the United States.   

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged to ship between 5% and 10% of the country’s total vaccine supply in an effort to combat a third wave of the pandemic that is raging in a number of Latin American nations.    Spain’s leftist government is confident that 70% of its population of 47 million will be inoculated by the end of August.   Sanchez said this week the country was “100 days away from herd immunity,” and will send surplus vaccines to donate to Latin America.