translated from Spanish: Investigators warn of cuts damage

Scientists, researchers, technicians, students and administrative personnel of the public research centers of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), warned of serious impacts by the austerity measures ordered by the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
On May 3, a memorandum was issued by the executive in which he immediately instructs cuts ranging from 30 to 50% in budget items directly affecting the operating expenditure of dependencies and entities, including public centres of research (CPIs.)
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By means of a letter, they stressed that these additional austerity measures imply the loss of places of eventual and operational personnel, which jeopardizes the execution of important basic, applied and technological research projects, both National and international, and even jeopardizes the operation of these centres.
The cuts would also imply the suspension or even cancellation of research activities, technological development, human resources training, dissemination and dissemination of science.
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While they stressed that the scientific community strongly supports the President’s efforts in terms of austerity and anti-corruption to eliminate unnecessary waste, they asked the executive to exempt the CPIs from the cuts Budgeted in the May 3 memorandum.
“We reaffirm our commitment to work and make science for the benefit of the Mexican people and we will continue to do so with responsibility and austerity. However, we need conditions of labor stability and real financial support for science to be used to generate new knowledge that will help solve Mexico’s problems, and that scientific knowledge is used to generate and detonate The development of our country. ”
The Charter is signed by 3190 researchers and other research and higher education institutions.
This is the complete letter:

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Original source in Spanish