translated from Spanish: COVID ‘came as a ring to the finger’ to fight corruption: Irma Sandoval

The secretary of the Public Service, Irma Eréndira Sandoval, commented at an event on transparency that “the crisis by COVID-19 came as a ring to the fourth transformation”, although until this Monday, November 17, a million 9 thousand 396 positive cases have been counted, and 98 thousand 861 people have died from this disease.
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During his participation in the opening of National Transparency Week 2020, Sandoval Ballesteros added that “for decades, in the neoliberal period, emergencies became fertile ground for such structural corruption, in fertile ground for large corporations, large economic and private interests to become increasingly public.”

After almost 100,000 official dead by COVID-19 alone, economic crisis, unemployment, uncertainty… 4Q still finds that the pandemic fell “like a ring to the finger.”
Today the secretary of the Public Service, Irma Eréndira Sandoval, repeated the president’s sentence. pic.twitter.com/vmC0OqPTVd
— Noise on the Network (@RuidoEnLaRed) November 17, 2020

According to the holder of the Secretariat of the Public Service, the unit had acted to prevent public resources from being diverted under the pretext of the pandemic, and recalled that it had been sanctioned on a number of suppliers who sold overpriced inputs.
“Unfortunately, too, and we have to recognize it, practices outside the new public ethic have been identified, especially by some ill-used suppliers, who have not understood that the old regime is over,” he said.
On them, he said, that “to all those who have speculated about the tragedy, who have sold us over-priced, we have punished them from the Secretary of the Public Service.”
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Last April, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the economic and health crisis over the pandemic in Mexico is “transitional”, and stated that he came “with a ring to his finger” to his government, to strengthen the purpose of the transformation he wants to realize in the country.
“This is not going to take long and we’re going to get stronger because they’re not going to make us change our purpose of ending corruption and that there is justice in the country. That’s why we’re going to be strengthened, that is, this came to our finger ring to strengthen the purpose of transformation,” he said.
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Original source in Spanish