Mexico's government recently allowed the auto, construction, and mining sectors to resume operations on Monday despite record deaths reported the previous day.
Mexico's Centro Nacional de Control de Energia (Cenace) indefinitely stopped all operations and critical tests for clean-energy projects amid the rising number of coronavirus cases in the nation.
The Mexican government and the National Electoral Institute have decided to remove President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s name from the letters that were supposed to be sent to recipients of stimulus loans.
Despite objections questioning the constitutionality of the new austerity measures, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s proposal to cut 75% of the national budget for the year is already moving in congress.
A joint program by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Mexican Business Council will seek to provide loans to 30,000 businesses in the country worth U.S. $12 billion to boost the economy.
After much effort and persuasion from U.S. President Donald Trump’s office, the new NAFTA will include stricter compliance to guidelines with regards to labor and automotive content without changing the US$1.2 trillion in trade flows between the U.S.-Mexico-Canada per year.
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 a recent telephone survey, the majority of Mexicans expressed their support to AMLO’s COVID-19 decisions. Find out here the other results of the survey.
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.
