translated from Spanish: The President of Unemployment THE DEBATE

Since Carlos Salinas de Gortari, there was no drop in employment in Mexico as has happened in recent months of the Government of the President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.The numbers do not lie and are clear, in December last year more than 382 thousand jobs were lost, in March more than 130 thousand and in April 555 thousand , are official figures of the IMSS, as official as that López Obrador is the president of unemployment. If only in April the country reached a record figure with the loss of more than 555 thousand formal jobs. No doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has spread the Mexican economy, but the trend was already negative, and it shows that in December last year there was a drop of 382,000 jobs, without pandemics. By the way, as we put forward yesterday, the federal government presented the Economic Revival Plan with the three stages that begin from Monday, May 18. The Secretary of the Economy, Gabriela Márquez, announced that the traffic light will be applied activities.As has been said, it is important that gradually and responsibly the economy begins to activate, because it is the new crisis that threatens the country, now that the federal government claims that they have already flattened the curve and tamed the coronavirus. In this new economic crisis the workhorse will be the coordinator of the senators of Morena, Ricardo Monreal, yesterday held a virtual meeting with the Business Coordinating Council. There, Ricardo Monreal asked entrepreneurs and private banking sensitivity so that unemployment levels do not exceed a historical limit because of the economic crisis already facing the country because of the coronavirus pandemic. He also warned that Mexico will be preparing for an economic recession. Ricardo Monreal should be warned that unemployment levels have already exceeded historical limits and also the economic recession. In fact, the economy has already been driven by influenza, pneumonia, and is currently in Coronavirus Intensive Therapy. Sinaloa. On the same day yesterday, the Secretary of the Economy, Javier Lizárraga Mercado, reported that Sinaloa was one of the states that had the least national impact on employment figures, with a reduction of only less than 813 per cent in April 2020.De agreement to IMSS figures, the annual employment rate in Sinaloa in April 2020 was at least 0.1 percent compared to the same month last year. While nationally it was minus 2.2 percent. In addition, a report notes: “in April, Sinaloa ranked 8th in the national ranking of annual employment growth rate, only seven states had a positive growth rate.” So the impact, very pending. Coronavirus. A lot of noise caused the possible contagion of COVID-19 of the municipal president of Mazatlan, Luis Guillermo Benítez. Until yesterday afternoon, the secretary of the City Council, José de Jesús Flores, confirmed that the mayor and his wife took the examination and were waiting for the results. While in Culiacan, City Council Secretary Othón Herrera and Cairo confirmed on their social media that he tested positive for COVID-19, so he is in solitary confinement. Agenda. Yesterday afternoon, the presentation of the book The Institutional Change in Public Administration in Mexico and Sinaloa, of the prestigious former UAdeO exrector, Alger Uriarte Zazueta, was presented by videoconference. He had as luxury commentators Emma Karina Millán and Manuel Angel Rodríguez. Highly recommended. Political memory. “They call you careless because they are used to gardens, not jungle”: Jaime Sabines.



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