Poverty as a suspect classification in Latin America

Abstract

This work aims to determine the reasons why poverty can be considered as a suspect classification in the American Convention on Human Rights and the constitutions of the states of Latin America, which have a point in common when recognizing equality as a principle, norm from which the prohibition of discrimination derives. The starting point that reveals the practical importance of the subject is the attempt to define what poverty is and to inform the current situation in the region in relation to the matter. Furthermore, in the final part of the research, the immediate consequences that this categorization of poverty would have in Latin America are exposed, which is relevant in the context of COVID-19.