Ten state governors have demanded the immediate dismissal of Hugo López-Gatell, Mexico’s deputy health minister and the federal government’s chief architect of the coronavirus pandemic strategy.
Noting that each hour 27 people die of Covid-19 in Mexico, the governors – including Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro – accused the federal government of pursuing a failed and uncoordinated containment strategy, generating confusion over the use of face masks, lying over hospitalization rates, and implementing a flawed “traffic light” system for states that has stifled local economies.
“The numbers continue to worsen and the health emergency begins to take on the dimension of a humanitarian crisis,” the governors said in a joint press statement. “There is no valid justification for maintaining a strategy that has not been successful and that has cost the lives of tens of thousands of Mexicans.”
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