frozeninthenorth Apr 13

I spent a good chunk of my year living in Mexico (work and pleasure) most of the time is in the Yucatan (both Merida and Cancun) and one thing that was often mentioned (in the region -- which is governed by the non-AMLO pary) is that AMLO slowed the Cuvid-19 process to make sure that taxpayers would pay all their taxes by the end of March...

The reason is that the Yucatan has been in lockdown for nearly one month, with all restaurants, businesses, beach towns and beaches shut to everyone (including those who own a beach house there).

Again this is Mexico, and rumors are a way of the world there, still, AMLO only started taking Covid-19 seriously after March 31st...

The fundamental problem is that AMLO has a very classical view of the world (and little exposure to the rest of the world), he's like a mini-Trump in his views -- "Mexicans are strong and will not get Covid-19", "those who take "time off" are lazy" and deserve what they get!

Its not hard to get these statements -- AMLO has a "press conference" every morning where he goes of on tangents worthy of the "Two Ronnies" since these press conferences have a tendency to last for up to two hours.

He has always taken the view that its all in the best interest of the nation: Cutting all daycare (to zero), shutting down all women shelters, cutting all medication to public hospitals, cutting salaries to doctors in public hospitals. There are no stop gaps there are no solutions -- ever! He believes that his "4th Transformation" is worth all the pain. So his view of the covid-19 is similar to that of Trump in the early days; "its a fix created by my enemies" seriously he's said that on a number of occasions.

Anyway, aside from giving money away -- since most Mexican production is for export markets, helping Mexican companies is probably not worth the effort since it's their markets that have been decimated.

On the other hand, he doesn't appear to want to help the people either.

It is truly amazing to see two North American countries behave so stupidly with grave consequences for their citizens. American has more than 25,000 dead so far (Canada with 1/10th of the population has 700) Mexico is not reporting deaths so no one will know how bad it will get, but since social distancing has only been in place for a few weeks...one can imagine it will get very very bad there too.

Enough rambling for an Easter Monday morning