The police detained a factory worker who was part of a group that stopped work to protest the lack of safety measures against the virus. Herika Martinez/Agence France-Presse
By Natalie Kitroeff
The New York Times
MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration and major U.S. manufacturers have pressured Mexico to keep factories that supply the United States operating during the coronavirus pandemic, even as outbreaks erupt and waves of cases and deaths sweep the companies.
Mexico must be responsive to the United States’ needs right now or, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico has said, risk losing the jobs that these factories provide.
“You don’t have ‘workers’ if you close all the companies and they move elsewhere,” Ambassador Christopher Landau said on Twitter. “Of course health comes first, but to me it seems myopic to suggest that economic effects don’t matter.”
Mexican officials have closed many factories and threatened legal action against those that remain open.
But the dispute highlights how much the two countries have come to depend on one another and how unequal that relationship remains.
Since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement over 25 years ago, Mexico has become a manufacturing mecca, attracting foreign-owned factories that employ hundreds of thousands of workers along the border and churn out everything from airplane parts to televisions, largely for the American market.
Now that the response to the coronavirus pandemic is shuttering businesses and factories in both countries, the United States is urging Mexico to allow exemptions for workers whose services are essential — not to Mexico, but to the United States.
This push comes as factories near the border have become key sources of infection, according to Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, the deputy health minister who is running Mexico’s response to coronavirus.
Mexico must be responsive to the United States’ needs right now or, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico has said, risk losing the jobs that these factories provide.
“You don’t have ‘workers’ if you close all the companies and they move elsewhere,” Ambassador Christopher Landau said on Twitter. “Of course health comes first, but to me it seems myopic to suggest that economic effects don’t matter.”
Mexican officials have closed many factories and threatened legal action against those that remain open.
But the dispute highlights how much the two countries have come to depend on one another and how unequal that relationship remains.
Since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement over 25 years ago, Mexico has become a manufacturing mecca, attracting foreign-owned factories that employ hundreds of thousands of workers along the border and churn out everything from airplane parts to televisions, largely for the American market.
Now that the response to the coronavirus pandemic is shuttering businesses and factories in both countries, the United States is urging Mexico to allow exemptions for workers whose services are essential — not to Mexico, but to the United States.
This push comes as factories near the border have become key sources of infection, according to Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, the deputy health minister who is running Mexico’s response to coronavirus.
14 comments:
Hey I hear HEB is now telling you how much meat you can get. If people don't work at the meat plant, guess what there will not be any meat at HEB for you to buy. If people don't go into the fields and pick onions there will not be any onions in HEB. Guess we are in a tight spot.
So now Mexico decides that COVID19 virus is real, just a few short weeks ago el Presidente de Mexico was saying that his gente were all immune to the American virus.
Die for us, Mexico! smh
“I don’t believe the polls,” Trump told Reuters yesterday. Claiming the polls are wrong is the last refuge of a struggling candidate. “I believe the people of this country are smart. And I don’t think that they will put a man in who’s incompetent.”
(A bit late for that.)
"We would love to open, definitely, right now if it would be possible, but it has to be feasible. If it’s 25% (capacity), it’s impossible,” said the owner of a well-known taqueria.
Y la Border Wall, papa?
We will never forget.
After interviewing 22,921 Americans across all 50 states, researchers from Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers universities found that respondents in every state rate their own governor's response to the coronavirus better than Donald Trump's.
In the collaborative 50-state COVID-19 survey, on average, Trump was trailing the governors by about 20 points, with 44% approving of Trump’s response while about 66% approve of their governor's handling.
- He must have tired of winning. Ha ha ha
May 1, 2020 at 7:43 AM
It wasn't the presidente estupido it was trumputo puto pendejo.
@ May 1, 2020 at 10:59 AM
Bullshit the el presidente de Mexico was having rallies and hugging and kissing on his citizens and talking about how his gente are immune to the Americans virus.
All the while the virus was rampant and he was clueless.
He also talked about closing the border to the U.S.
Dumbass.
It was a mayor in a rural village idiota just like the mayor we have here. Maybe related pendejos los tres
You believe the polls.LOL! Remember 2016?
I do. It's called winning.
I'd rather get tired of winning than tired of whining.
@ May 2, 2020 at 9:36 AM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-idUSKBN213263
This was all over the news and internet.
who cares.
doesn't compare to trump el mero mero pendejo
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