The Virus Is Organic, the Pandemic Is Political

Abstract

This article aims to describe several contradictions that the coronavirus crisis has displayed affecting health, economy and emotional behaviour, caused by the pandemic and analyze how these problems have affected politics. Inevitably, these contradictions “politicize” public space, because politics is at the center of the fight and criticism for power and public decision-making. Politics is also a source of cohesion facing conflicts, although it has little capacity to solve them, due to economic supremacy in peoples’ lives and their life project personalization, since crises undress societies and reveal the contradictions within the economic model and the nature of social inequality.

Last but not least, the article underlines some political effects caused by Covid-19 pandemic around the world, it puts forward, as well, and summarizes Mexico’s difficulties.