FRIDAY, APRIL 17
PROGRAM # 8858 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
As phase two of the coronavirus pandemic moves forward, the Mexican government extends until May 30 the suspension of non-essential activities and the instructions to the Mexican people to remain at home. And to compel 25 percent of the industry that refuses to stop operating, the federal public health authority announces inspections and closings, as cases of maquiladora workers who have died of Covid-19 have already been reported in the north of the country. Meanwhile, in the state of Yucatan, thanks to pressure by civil organizations, the German company LEONI Wiring Systems, which manufactures harnesses for cars, stopped working. In other news, spokesmen for indigenous communities in the Guerrero mountain range and in the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas, talk about the early arrival of farmworkers who migrate to the northern fields and the measures that some communities have been taking as protection. In addition, this edition comments on the so-called “epidemic of fake news” that have been hindering health authorities in their fight against Covid-19 and on an initiative by prominent Mexican-Americans to get the California government to support with medical supplies and equipment hospitals in neighboring Baja California state. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this broadcast of the Voz Pública program from Mexico City.
Guests: (taped interviews) Sergio Oceransky, Activist, Fundación Yansa, Mérida, Yucatán; Paulino Rodríguez, Coordinator, Program of Attention to Migrant Laborers and Laborers of the Mountain, Tlachinollan, Tlapa, Guerrero; Patrocinio Hernández-Gómez, Spokesperson, Council of Las Abejas, Chenalhó, Chiapas; (recordings) Samuel Orozco, Executive Producer, Línea Abierta, Fresno, CA; Professor Armando VázquezRamos, President and CEO, The California-Mexico Studies Center, Long Beach, CA.
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