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Did the pandemic turn into a political issue?
Government leaders turned the pandemic into a political issue and President Andrés Manuel López Obrado r is criticizing his opposers, including business leaders, journalists, and doctors. We’ve been told that now that the government launched a plan to resume economic activities, it has been tainted by politics. What are we talking about? Well, the federal government named the coronavirus-free municipalities as “ hope municipalities ,” a title that reminds us of Morena’s slogan : “Morena, Mexico’s hope.”We’ve been told this is aimed at the 2021 elections .
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More COVID-19 cases are confirmed inside the government
Some government departments are having trouble announcing if any worker has contracted COVID-19 . For example, the IMSS announced Fabiana Zepeda had tested positive for COVID-19 days after Zepeda found out. A similar case took place in the Public Administration Ministry when Irma Eréndira Sandoval announced she had tested positive a week after receiving her results. In contrast, Profeco Director Ricardo Sheffield a nnounced his results son after receiving them; Roberto Velasco, the Foreign Ministry’ s spokesperson, also announced he had COVID-19 on Tuesday.
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The federal government ignores the PRI
The PRI is awaiting a response from the federal government after its leader, Alejandro Moreno , sent a letter to Health Minister Jorge Alcocer on May 8. In the letter, Moreno offered to convert the properties owned by the political party into temporary hospitals to treat patients infected with COVID-19 . Some PRI members say Moreno is too innocent because the current administration believes the opposition is the enemy and a symbol of corruption; therefore, the is no way the government would accept help from them.
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Virtual meeting at the Senate
Everything indicates that virtual meetings are here to stay at the Senate . We’ve been told that the Political Coordination Board, led by Ricardo Monreal, requested a virtual meeting with two ministers and Alejandro Díaz de León , the head of Banxico . We’ve been told that Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and Security Minister Alfonso Durazo were summoned. In the case of Ebrard, senators want to know more about the Mexico-U.S. relation; in the case of Durazo, he will be questioned about the participation of the military in public security tasks and the National Guard. Alejandro Díaz de León will talk about the economic outlook.
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