Title:
‘A brutal blow’: A bill threatens dozens of trust funds that support Mexican science
Authors:
Rodrigo Pérez Ortega & Inés Gutiérrez Jaber
Published:
Science, 2 October 2020
From the article:
MEXICO CITY—Mexican scientists clad in lab coats and carrying handmade signs gathered here yesterday outside the Chamber of Deputies to protest a bill that would cut a lifeline for many Mexican research centers. The bill, which appears likely to pass, would terminate 109 trust funds run by public research centers and government institutes, one-third of them devoted to science and technology. The government plans to divert the roughly 68 billion pesos ($3 billion) in funds to help cope with the coronavirus pandemic.