“President’s policy is a failure”: Lilly Téllez and Denise Dresser accuse AMLO of increasing poverty in Mexico

August 5, National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval) confirmed that Mexico added 3.8 million new poor in 2020 due to the health crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With this amount, the total figure rose to 55.7 million compared to 51.9 million in 2018, so that the percentage of the population living in poverty rose to 43.9% last year, while in 2018, the year in which Andrés Manuel López Obrador took the reins of the country as president, 41.9% were registered.

Due to this increase, the main indicated was AMLO, as one of the main slogans of his government has been “first the poorAs a reminder to help this segment of the population improve their quality of life. However, these figures indicate that he did not respect it.

Faced with this situation, the senator of the National Action Party (STOVE), Lilly Winter, he blasted the Federal President and assured that it was López Obrador’s mistakes that caused this situation.

He also mentioned that during his nearly three years in government he has blamed institutions, various people and political parties instead of improving its economic policy to fight poverty in Mexico.

“The truth is that the poor increased because of AMLO errors. Even though I blame the pandemic, the past, the neoliberalism, to intellectuals, to Spanish conquest, private doctors, Harvard, journalists, rich countries, wind turbines, Coneval. “

“To the judges, to fake news, those who aspire to a better income, the potholes, the conservatives, the price of gasoline, the students abroad, the trusts, etc. The president’s economic policy is a failure against poverty; he must correct, ”said Téllez, who entered the Senate with Morena.

Who joined the criticism was the academic Denise chest of drawers, because from his social networks he shared the opinion column entitled “Bad factory», Written by the analyst Enrique Quintana and published in the newspaper The financier.

The teacher of ITAM has selected a fragment of the text where it indicates that from 2018 to 2020, around 15 million people lost access to health services due to the failure of the INSABI.

In a second tweet, he wrote: “It’s not ideology, it’s the hard fact that people reveal. If this government does not want to go down in history as a factory for the poor, it needs change the conditions that triggered poverty, among them the lack of economic growth ”.

With this text, he designated AMLO as the culprit of this increase in the number of poor people, since INSABI, which replaced the Popular insurance, that was his proposal.

López Obrador, during a press conference since Baja California Sur, assured that CONEVAL has different indicators and did not take into account the growth in remittances who have entered the country from the United States in recent years.

Given this statement, the influencer Chumel torres It was launched against the president to emphasize that this money is not a given for Mexico, since it is provided by people who have left the country in search of opportunities not offered.

“Remittances are no big deal. These are people who haven’t found a job here because they’re on the dick. He left. Send money to your family because here is the rooster. Stop bragging. Do not be of the dick “, also condemned the youtubeur.

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