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Mexico, like most countries, has taken an economic beating this year from the COVID-19 pandemic. Restrictions on business activities began relatively late here — in April — but were severe for the first three to four months, and since the summer the severity of shutdown has varied across states and municipalities around the country. As the year comes to a close, contagion remains fairly high overall and Mexico City has reverted to red, the highest level on the epidemiological traffic light used to set restrictions on business and mobility. Whatever the color though, a lot of people are catching the COVID, as it’s called here, and hospitals are at or close to capacity in the capital. Continue reading Daunting road ahead for Mexico in 2021
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COVID blows AMLO legacy for lovers and haters alike
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused economic devastation and loss of life around the world, and we are now coming to the conclusion that the disease will rob us of one more thing some of us very much looked forward to seeing: The historical verdict on an AMLO government. All our lives (or at least, in our case, since the López Portillo administration), we have parroted the same truisms about Mexican society: that all politicians are corrupt, the unions are corrupt, Pemex is corrupt, the police are corrupt, and generally that él que no transa no avanza — he who doesn’t engage in corruption doesn’t get ahead. Continue reading COVID blows AMLO legacy for lovers and haters alike
Mexico City COVID-19 update March 26
March 26, 2020, day whatever of the COVID-19 global crisis, and we’re here to report that Mexico City is still hopping. We’re not going to say that things are normal — they’re not — but we took a bike ride up Av. Alvaro Obregon in central Colonia Roma at lunch time today and the stores and restaurants were open with customers. There’s no question that foot traffic is way down (vehicle traffic was fairly heavy), but there were people out there ordering their glasses of wine or beer while perusing menus at outdoor cafes. The media are telling us that this is not the case in most of Europe right now, so maybe it’s no wonder that the occasional tourist couple can still be seen stubbornly sticking out the remainder of their Mexico City vacation. Continue reading Mexico City COVID-19 update March 26