Corporations from the United States are urging Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to reclassify maquiladoras as essential to reopen the supply chain during the lockdown. Factory workers are pressured to work again, and this time they try to protest.
As a move against the further spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the National Migration Institute has started deporting immigrants from its sixty-five migrant facilities back to their respective countries.
Now when a leader is called upon to rise to the occasion that Mexico is facing in its fight against the pandemic, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador appears to have regressed into refusing accountability and blaming others for the situation at hand.
While the efforts of the Mexican government focused on mitigating the economic and health crisis brought by the pandemic, there has become a failure to provide basic security to vulnerable populations.
In an attempt to quell the crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced new propositions of austerity measures that he believed was in tangent with his post-neoliberal vision.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced in a news conference that Mexico and the United States both relied on one another for lifting the countries’ economies and migration.
Much to everyone’s chagrin, it does not seem as though the pandemic is going to end anytime soon. More hospitals are becoming crowded, showing that the city will not be able to handle the influx of patients at the height of the pandemic, which is fast approaching.
Almost painting a grim scene, street vendors are selling products during the quarantine imposed for residents to stop going out. They are lined up on the Puente Plateado bridge, with their makeshift stalls in place.
Amid the crisis hospitals are facing where they need to reduce costs by furloughing their medical staff for expenditure, Mexico City has launched a campaign.
In the time of a health crisis drawn out by the pandemic, President Lopez Obrador prioritized the country’s economy by refusing to change his mind about his economic recovery plan, which only increases public investment.
With an additional 101 confirmed cases of COVID-19, Mexico’s number rose to 1094. (Photo: Reuters) In a report issued on Monday, the Ministry of Health shared the death of 28 people from COVID-19 and 1,094 confirmed cases of the said virus.
Mexican government states that coronavirus is more likely to affect the rich than the poor. (Photo : Reuters) Coronavirus is now an escalating infection that must be stopped, it is putting economical, emotional and physical health aspects at stake.
