Mexico City.
In contrast to his active presence at press conferences and social networks, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has missing out of the public sphere since he was incarcerated by testing positive coronavirus last Sunday, generate concern in the country.
The Minister of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero, Responsible for replacing him in his morning press conferences, he confined himself to saying this Thursday that the leader, from 67 years e hypertensive, is “very good” with “mild symptoms” of the disease and that “is still complete exercise of their functions “.
But the truth is, nothing has been known about his schedule since last Monday when he last published it social networks, where he posted a picture with a smile after a phone call with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, On vacuna Sputnik V. against covid-19, a disease that has more than killed 153,000 Mexicans.
According to the information provided by the government’s dripper, Lopez Obrador is limited to his place of residence in the National Palace, in good spirits and without major symptoms above some “mild fever” And a little headache”, and attended by a group of doctors led by the Minister of Health, Jorge Alcocer, who did not make any statement.
PRIVACY OR TRANSPARENCY?
The government strategist against the coronavirus, the epidemiologist Hugo López-Gatell, made that clear on Monday transparency will not be the priority: “The president has the right to Privacy, not just now, but throughout the entire period of president recovery we are not going to do not disclose data “, said.
For Óscar Casillas, political communication expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), de disease would require from a president “by national health“an important “fluent in information”, with recurring medical reports without falling into “medical pornography” or “gruesome details”.
“It’s a matter of politics and feelings of insecurity are being created in the population immense rivers of rumors‘, the expert told Efe since in social networks There are already theories that the president’s disease or that it is worse than what is said.
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Given the debate over the president’s health status, the president of the National Institute of Transparency (INAI), Blanca Lilia Ibarra, clarified in statements to Radio Fórmula this Thursday that there is no government official. obligated legally required to provide details about your disease.
In any case, the official said that “it is helpful to be informed about the health status of our leaders,” and illustrated that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced in a video he had COVID-19, while the American’s medical team Donald Trump gave several medical reports about his condition for the coronavirus. EFE