THE PANDEMIC CRISIS OF COVID-19 IN MEXICO: PROBLEM OF THE LACK OF COORDINATION OF THE FEDERAL SYSTEM FOR ITS MANAGEMENT

Abstract

The crisis in which Mexico has been seen since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic is exposed, highlighting the lack of coordination between the orders of government of the federal system that present dissimilar procedures for their control, which allows the parties to members promote differentiated public policies to respond to public problems. The general objective is to make known how the pandemic developed in the initial stage and if the federal authorities acted appropriately and detect the social consequences, the importance of lack of coordination and if federalism can be seen both as a problem and as a solution to the crisis. that originated. The methodology is based on a general investigation of systematic, empirical, and critical processes regarding the issue of COVID-19 and how the federal government has handled it; the approach is carried out with theoretical and geographic-cartographic methods. The results allow us to observe the actions of federalism in a comprehensive and multiscalar manner in the face of the pandemic and if there is agreement between its components. Which allows us to conclude that there is a lack of coordination in the federal system of Mexico to face the management of the pandemic.