translated from Spanish: “AMLO deals a dry blow to the poor”: Felipe Calderón

Mexico.- Former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa shared on his Twitter account an article by “El Financiero” entitled “AMLO deals a dry blow to the poor” by Enrique Cardenas, which analyzes the data released by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval) on the increase in poverty in Mexico in the last three years. According to figures from the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH), over the course of 2018 to 2020, 15.6 million Mexicans stopped having access to health services; while household labour income fell by 11 per cent. In his article, Cardenas points out that although many have justified that the declines in health and economy were caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, including President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, others think that the deterioration in these senses was also due to the lack of policies and the erroneous measures allowed by the government of the Fourth Transformation. Felipe Calderón shares an article from “El Financiero”/Source: Twitter @FelipeCalderon The economist points out that, specifically, the decline in access to health care has nothing to do with the health contingency, but with the disappearance of the Popular Insurance by the current administration. In this regard, he maintained that this action left 15.6 million more people without coverage for health services, thus adding 35.7 million Mexicans in this situation. In addition, he explained that another of the damages has been the shortage of medicines, which has not only been suffered by children with cancer, but also by patients with other types of diseases, such as chronic diseases. He emphasized that the lack of medicines and access to health in general caused citizens to start spending more on it, which in turn caused investment in food to fall, as it fell 5.9%. Read more: Sergio Sarmiento reveals drug supply scam and doctors’ silence For all this, Enrique Cardenas Sanchez considered that the health and economic policies of President López Obrador’s government have been a “dry blow” for Mexicans, especially for those with lower incomes, since the most affected entities, according to the Coneval, were Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Veracruz and Puebla.



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