Signos Vitales México Synopsis Since years ago, there is a consensus about the severe violation of human rights in Mexico. Diverse non-governmental international organizations have documented the humanitarian crisis in the country. The very same Lopez Obrador criticized, as candidate and opponent, the Mexican state’s actions in the human rights matter and considered it the main responsible of … Read more
Synopsis The social impact resulting from the COVID–19 pandemic is devastating, and its aftermath keeps getting deeper. It is estimated that the pandemic has left 70 million poor in Mexico. Hence if we are 126 million people, more than 50% of the current population cannot find the needed resources to cover their basic needs. Unfortunately, … Read more
Synopsis The vulnerable groups in México had been in an abusive environment, and the Covid sanitary condition has propelled its enhancements. The arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been te condition enough to increase the tendency or risk to suffer a different affectation (economic, physical, psychic, emotional) without being necessarily related to poverty. There are … Read more
Synopsis La llegada de Andrés Manuel López Obrador con una mayoría nunca vista en el siglo XXI hizo posible la tentación de concentrar el poder presupuestal que muchos presidentes han deseado. El presupuesto es la columna vertebral de las políticas públicas, por lo que su ejecución es un indicador de las prioridades de un gobierno. … Read more
Synopsis The Mexican state has managed to build professional and technical bureaucracies capable of facing the challenges characteristic of diverse tasks from diverse bodies that the Mexican state must fulfill. This professionalization is under threat due to several decisions taken by the federal government. The creation of the Federal Law of Republican Austerity and the … Read more
Synopsis More than 451 thousand companies in Mexico are in a technical stoppage: they have not opened their doors during the confinement or have made any other effort to continue operating because of different reasons. It is the closest thing to bankruptcy. There are still 47% of companies (especially SMEs) that have a probability greater … Read more
Synopsis It is essential to insist that all these adjustments have affected the National Education System operability and in consequence, the continuity of the policies that were being implemented, without these changes being the result of any review of the evidence of what was working well and still had to be adjusted. Combined with this … Read more
Synopsis Mexican education has prevailed in a constant transition environment and lately its evolution has been affected by the sanitary contingence of COVID-19. The pandemic implied, among other measures, the decision to close the schools and traverse to different modes of distance education to stop the spread of the virus. Management of the pandemic in … Read more
Synopsis Mexico is facing one of its biggest economic crises, the supply shock induced by the health crisis has had a serious impact on employment demand. The stoppage of activities, however, can create greater income differences among Mexicans since, from the analysis of formal employment, it can be seen that just over 92% of the … Read more
Synopsis Tensions between federal and local governments are not new in Mexico, but the beginning of the current administration in the country has intensified the relations of a group of governors with the President. These confrontations are anchored, fundamentally, in the disproportionality of the fiscal system and the political control that the federal executive power … Read more