Fecha Publicación: 31-03-2022

I’m from the state of Puebla, a medium-sized city in central Mexico. Over the past two years, I’ve observed as at least one out of every ten local residents has fallen from the middle class into poverty or a vulnerable state because of the Covid-19 pandemic. At the beginning of 2021, the state of Puebla was the third Mexican state with most formal job positions lost (39,172 positions), with respect to the 2020 level.

The stories from the pandemic in Puebla and how daily travails like finding an oxygen machine can plunge people from the middle class are all too common.

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