Mexico City.
Unlike his active presence at press conferences and social networks, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has missing from the public sphere since it was limited by positive testing for coronavirus last Sunday, generating concern in the country.
Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero, Responsible for his replacement at his morning press conferences, he limited himself to saying on Thursday that leader, from 67 years old e hypertensive, is “very good” with “Mild symptoms” of the disease and that “it is still completely the exercise of their functions “.
But the truth is that nothing was known about his program last Monday, when he made his last publication in social networks, where he posted a smiling photo after talking on the phone with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on vaccine Sputnik V against covid-19, a disease that killed more than 153,000 Mexicans.
According to the information provided by the accounting government, Lopez Obrador is limited to his domicile in National Palace, with good mood and no major symptoms beyond some “low fever” And little headache”, and attended by a group of doctors led by Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer, who made no statement.
CONFIDENTIALITY OR TRANSPARENCY?
Government strategist against coronavirus, the epidemiologist Hugo López-Gatell, specified on Monday that transparency will not be the priority: “The President has the right to Privacy, not just now, but throughout the year recovery of the president we do not go to do not disclose data “, said.
For Óscar Casillas, an expert in political communication at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), disease of a President would require “by national health“a diploma “Fluency in information”, with recurring medical reports without falling into “medical pornography” or “Terrible details.”
“It is a matter of politics and feelings of uncertainty are created in the population. This uncertainty will generate huge rivers of rumors“, said the expert for Efe, since social networks There are already theories like the one the president invented disease or that it is worse than what is said.
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In view of the debate on the health of the president, the president of the National Institute of Transparency (INAI), Blanca Lilia Ibarra, clarified on Thursday in statements addressed to Radio Fórmula that no public official is bound by law to provide details about you disease.
In any case, the official said that “it is convenient to be informed about the state of health of our leaders” and exemplified that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, he announced in a video he had covid19, while the American medical team Donald Trump gave several medical reports about his condition for coronavirus. EFE