Pepe Mujica: “Market policy has entered …

Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica said that the policy is not up to the challenge posed by the pandemic of the coronavirus and warned that the market “has entered a global health crisis”.

In dialogue with 40 hours, by AM750, Mujica stated that the pandemic has brought to light both positive and negative aspects of society. “On the one hand, it showed the huge technological leap we have made as a company producing vaccines in a very short period of time. It’s positive. But it also showed that the policy is not up to the challenge. How come they haven’t been released from vaccine patents in the midst of this crisis? Mujica asked.

“Market policy has entered a global health crisis”said the ex-president and denounced the millionaire company behind vaccines. “Governments are between a rock and a hard place. The laboratories impose conditions of acceptance or they do not sell them, ”he added. Mujica also said that during the health crisis, the gap between rich and poor widened. “The pandemic has given more to those who have the most,” he asked.

Restrictive measures

On the handling of the pandemic by different countries, the former Uruguayan president said restrictive measures have little effect if people do not respect them. “There is a percentage of the population that does not give the ball,” Mujica noted.

“It is obvious that the greater the mobility, the greater the contagion. There are people who have to go to work. It is an inevitable risk. What is not justified is to take risks for social gatherings, ”Mujica said. face to face, the former president declared that they were a necessity in the development of the people but indicated that “now the priority is to stop the infections”.

The pandemic in Uruguay

Regarding Uruguay, he warned that “contagions are not easing” and that the situation is getting bogged down. “In Uruguay, the economy has been privileged and now the results are in sight. The cost is too high,” he concluded.