El nuevo presidente de México sorprende a los científicos con recortes presupuestarios y comentarios despectivos

Nada menos en que en la revista Science, una de las dos publicaciones científicas más prestigiadas en el mundo de la ciencia.

Pobre ciencia mexicana.

*El nuevo presidente de México sorprende a los científicos con recortes presupuestarios y comentarios despectivos*

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"The initially warm relations between Mexico’s academic community and the country’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, have decidedly cooled. A package of harsh austerity measures implemented on 3 May, has had a deep impact on federally funded laboratories and institutes; it includes a 30% cut to fuel for vehicles and office supplies and a 50% cut to international travel funds and payments to contract workers. Scientists say the cuts are a serious threat to the future of Mexican research.

López Obrador alarmed scientists with a proposal—later withdrawn—to personally approve researchers’ travel abroad, including to international conferences, which he called “tourism.” Meanwhile, many researchers question the new focus on social problems promoted by Elena Álvarez-Buylla, the controversial head of Mexico’s main research granting agency, Conacyt. And they fear the agency’s control over research funds and science policy will grow if reforms proposed by the president’s party are enacted.

“A general atmosphere of pessimism” has come to pervade Mexico’s scientific community, says José Luis Morán López, a physicist at IPICYT and president of the Mexican Academy of Sciences."

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/mexico-s-new-president-shocks-scientists-budget-cuts-and-disparaging-remarks?fbclid=IwAR3ZONQZu5VhEgvhfpLsWLnwHt_e5ospf3kV_TJgJoZfPvqU6ti4rrg6J24