translated from Spanish: “The fall of oil is going to affect us but we’re going to deal with this crisis with strength,” says AMLO

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Mexico.- During his morning conference this morning the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, indicated that yes, that the fall of oil was going to seriously affect the Mexican economy, but that it would be met with strength and that they have sufficient economic and financial resources.
With the fall in the price of oil there is an aggravation in the global economic crisis that will certainly affect us, but I want to give the assurance that we Mexicans will be able to face this crisis. On which I base my optimism, on the strength of our country on the strength of our people, that is the fundamental thing to say, also that we have sufficient material economic resources that we have to face the crisis because in the time we have managed to save resources by not allowing corruption and for being.. for carrying out an austere government without extravagances, we have sufficient reservations and we will adjust our spending in the government without firing workers.

Mexico’s president assures workers working for the state that no one would be fired, but if the cost the government has for Mexicans would be reduced.
“No worker in the service of the state is going to lose his job but if we are going to further reduce the cost of the government to society and this will allow us to release more funds the money will not stay in the government if it is not going to continue to move to the people,” the representative said.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that to achieve this “the formula is efficiency honesty austerity and justice”.
“From the bottom up, the poorest first they have nothing to fear because they will not lack the basics, which is the basics of food and the right to health to education to welfare that is our commitment whatever happens in the world, here it will do protection because we are already advanced in establishing the welfare state” said the representative.

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