Mexico City.
In contrast to his active presence at press conferences and Social Networks, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has disappeared of the public sphere since it was confined to giving positive for Crown virus last Sunday, generating concern in the country.
The Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero, in charge of replacing him at his morning press conferences, he limited himself to saying this Thursday that the agent, de 67 years e hypertensive, Is “very good” with “Mild symptoms” of the disease and that “is still in full swing exercise of its functions “.
But the truth is that nothing is known of his agenda since last Monday, when he made his last post in Social Networks, where he posted a smiling photo after talking on the phone with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the vaccine Sputnik V against covid-19, a disease that has killed more than 153,000 Mexicans.
According to information provided by droppers by the Government, López Obrador is confined to his home in the National Palace, In good spirits and without major symptoms beyond a little “Febrilla” and “a little bit of headache “, and attended by a group of doctors led by the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer, who has not made any statement.
PRIVACY OR TRANSPARENCY?
The government strategist against the Crown virus, the epidemiologist Hugo López-Gatell, made it clear Monday that the transparency will not be the priority: “The President is entitled to the privacy, not just right now, but throughout the entire period of recovery of the president we are not going to reveal any data “, He said.
By Óscar Casillas, expert in political communication at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the disease of a president would require “for national health“A major “Fluency in information”, with recurring medical reports without falling into “medical pornography” or “Rough Details.”
“It is a matter of policy and feelings of uncertainty are being created in the population. What this uncertainty will generate is immense rivers of rumors“, The expert pointed out to Efe, since in Social Networks theories are already circulating that the president invented the disease or that it is worse than it is said.
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Faced with the debate over the state of health of the president, the president of the National Institute of Transparency (INAI), Blanca Lilia Ibarra, clarified this Thursday in statements to Ràdio Fórmula that no public official is obligatory by law to give details about his disease.
In any case, the official opined that “it is appropriate to be informed about the state of health of our rulers,” and exemplified that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, he announced in a video he had COVID-19[feminine mentre que l’equip mèdic de el nord-americà Donald Trump va donar diversos informes mèdics sobre el seu estat pel coronavirus. EFE