Synopsis The sanitary crisis impact has permeated the business environment in tourism through its different economic activities. This situation is caused by the activities related mainly to services demanding physical presence and people mobility (both providers and petitioners). The mobility in department stores decreased 71% (April 10th, 2020) in the most critical moment of the … Read more
Synopsis Previous to the sanitary crisis, tourism contributed 8.7% of the Gross Domestic Product (PIB for its acronym in Spanish) in Mexico. It was the main source of currency in dollars in the Good and Services Account (24,573.2 million dollars in 2019, 2,163.9 million dollars higher than oil exports). At the same time, it employed … Read more
Synopsis With the allocation process, the Mexican political system began facing new challenges, especially in jurisdictional matters. The federalism built with the long democratization process seems not to have been designed deliberately but due to the political regime changes in the country and diverse political junctures. Among the two emerged conflicts in the new federalist … Read more
Synopsis Since 2008, an open militarization process started in Mexico. The disposition to start frontal armed combat with organized crime was taken by the then president Felipe Calderón, who reinforced the use of the Army and the Navy to perform different national security tasks, especially the ones related to the country’s public safety. Ever since, … Read more
Synopsis Education is one of the most influential factors in the progress and development of people and decreases conditions such as poverty, ignorance, violence, and discrimination; a mechanism that is at stake and feeds a tremendous academic concern in light of the lack of immediate planning of an uncertain future in educational matters. The signs … Read more
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