• CONTROL: At least five Mexican state governors have objected to the federal government’s control over the reopening of their economies slated to begin on June 1st despite assurances from the López Obrador administration that states authorities would be consulted constantly every week.
• STATE: “You cannot make decisions from the center saying: ‘This is the (system) that we are going to apply’ since it would be an incorrect way of doing things on the health issue. Even within the same state, the situation is different”, said Manuel de la O, Nuevo León’s state health secretary.
• SYSTEM: Presenting a traffic-light-based system to grade coronavirus outbreaks, federal officials said there would be flexibility with each state but that the final word would be theirs. The Governors of Jalisco, Nuevo León, Guanajuato, Coahuila and Puebla publicly opposed the plan.
• FEDERAL: “We made it very clear: a single national (system). For what reason? Because if we use different methodology (in each state) then we would start evaluating things differently and recognize patterns of disease occurrence differently”, said Hugo López-Gatell, Mexico’s coronavirus czar.
