It is now possible in the United States to take public transport or taxis without protection against Covid-19.
A preventive tool, a source of sometimes violent conflict, the mask has become optional for passengers as well as for American employees.
A decision that arouses both cheers and annoyance in the country, including at the White House.
In Peru, the social climate is far from peaceful.
After the state of emergency declared last month, anger remains strong in the face of still galloping inflation.
The increase in the prices of basic foodstuffs is such that the trade unions launched, at the beginning of the week, a general strike in transport, also organizing roadblocks in the region of Cuzco, the heart of tourism in Peru.
Hundreds of tourists would have found themselves blocked by the demonstrators, on the roads which lead in particular to the famous Machu Picchu.
This ancient Inca city, perched on the eastern slope of the central Andes, is precisely the subject of an exhibition at the City of Architecture and Heritage in Paris.
"Machu Picchu and the treasures of Peru" presents, for the first time in France, 200 pieces dating back nearly 3,000 years.
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