The government can’t pay its electricity bill

The government can’t pay its electricity bill

If you’re worried because you can’t pay your rent or electricity bill, you aren’t alone. We’ve been told that the federal government is currently going through this situation. The bank accounts used to pay for these things are currently blocked until each ministry comes up with a 75% budget cut in areas such as supplies, materials, and general services, as ordered by the Finance Ministry , led by Arturo Herrera. This measure was imposed as an austerity measure amid the COVID-19 pandemic .

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Graciela Márquez​ feels lonely

We’ve been told that last Sunday, several officials declined to join Economy Minister Graciela Márquez Colín in her daily news conference ; therefore, the Minister was all alone. We’ve been told that perhaps this is why H ealth Minister Jorge Alcocer confused her name and changed it to García Márquez, the Colombian writer behind the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude .

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Mr. President, with all due respect, your information is wrong

On Monday, President López Obrador criticized EL UNIVERSAL after it published comments made by a PAN lawmaker . During his news conference, the President said: “I was reading EL UNIVERSAL yesterday, they are like a modern alarmist newspaper during the pandemic, with all due respect (…) they are showing their true colors; they are doing alarmist and slanderous journalism against us. I was reading that a PAN leader is going to file a lawsuit , I think it’s the lawmakers’ coordinator, he is going to file a lawsuit against Dr. Hugo López-Gatell (…) Of course the interview was made by EL UNIVERSAL. If you want to criticize the government, go to EL UNIVERSAL (…).”

With all due respect, you misread the article, Mr. President. The statement you referred to was made by a federal lawmaker and PAN coordinator Juan Carlos Romero Hicks , who didn’t give an interview to the newspaper; instead, he issued a press release that was shared by the newspaper, along with many other media outlets. Since it was a statement, it wasn’t printed. It’s also false that the lawmaker is a PAN leader.

Furthermore, the most recent interview with a political party leader was published last week and it was an interview with Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar , Morena ’s leader; the leader of your party, Mr. Preisdent. This interview made it to the front page, a place where leaders from all parties have appeared.

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