“…Early results revealed that behind this fear-based passivity, many local initiatives were developed precisely as a survival mechanism, a way for marginalised communities to self-sustain in the context of a perceived abandonment by health authorities and the State. Unsurprisingly, the main form of action developed at the grassroots level where the 'ollas comunes', cooperative cooking of meals for people who, due to the pandemic, couldn't afford food -provided a strategy of resistance and solidarity that had only been seen with this intensity in the 1980s, amid dictatorship and a deep economic crisis (Espinoza, 2020).…”