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Leonardo Curzio en Fórmula I Lunes 09 de Febrero 2026

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Former Health Secretary Salomón Chertorivsky reveals Mexico accounts for 73% of all measles cases in the Americas in early 2025, with a contagion rate of 16-18 versus COVID's 2.4.

1. Leonardo Curzio en Fórmula, broadcast February 9, 2026, centers on Mexico's measles outbreak, weak employment data, and a preview of the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index. 2. Host Leonardo Curzio leads with correspondents and expert guests including former Health Secretary Salomón Chertorivsky, correspondent Andrea Meraz, and corruption analyst Eduardo Borges. 3. The episode's core argument is that Mexico's current public health, employment, and corruption crises all reflect institutional failure and policy decisions made by specific officials. 4. Curzio opens by noting IMSS reported a net loss of 8,000 jobs for the period, with only 197,000 new affiliations in 12 months versus Mexico's need for at least 800,000 — less than 25% of the required rate. 5. The IMSS simultaneously reported a record 22.5 million total enrolled members, which Curzio notes is technically true but misleading as a headline figure. 6. Five bodies of workers missing since January were identified by a Canadian mining company in Sinaloa, in a clandestine grave alongside five unidentified others. 7. Former Health Secretary Salomón Chertorivsky attributed Mexico's measles outbreak directly to former Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell, who eliminated the national vaccination weeks established by Dr. Jesús Kumate in the early 1990s, calling them 'neoliberal.' 8. Chertorivsky stated Mexico owes López-Gatell 802,000 pandemic deaths, and noted Gatell now holds a comfortable UN position in Geneva while Mexico deals with the consequences of his decisions. 9. Chertorivsky provided the continental scale of the outbreak: Mexico accounts for 43% of the 15,000 continental measles cases from 2025, and 73% of all continental cases in the first weeks of that year. 10. He compared measles contagion rates (16-18) directly to COVID (2.4-2.5) to explain why an unvaccinated population creates explosive outbreaks impossible to control once started. 11. Chertorivsky also flagged silent vaccination gaps including the human papillomavirus vaccine, where 2 million annual doses fell to 100,000 in 2019, with cervical cancer consequences only becoming visible as those girls reach adulthood. 12. Correspondent Andrea Meraz reported finding almost no operational vaccination modules at locations the Mexico City government had publicly announced — finding only Barranca del Muerto station operational out of 500 announced sites. 13. Eduardo Borges, previewing the 2025 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index under embargo, stated only 7 in 100 administrative corruption cases in Mexico receive any sanction at all. 14. Borges named Huachicol Fiscal, Segalmex, and Odebrecht as examples of large-scale cases that have generated impunity, arguing that 'the master scam' operators are still active without effective sanctions. 15. A Mexico City survey found 84% of capitalinos perceive their government as corrupt, which Borges described as a signal to new Contraloría head Nachelli Ramírez. 16. Curzio asked about the government's classification of all technical information on the Interoceanic Train derailment for five years, noting the irony of a 'transparency' government creating new classified information. 17. Trump attacked Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Bad Bunny on social media after his Super Bowl halftime show performance; Cuba faces a turbosina aviation fuel shortage threatening intercontinental flights to Havana. 18. The episode combines expert studio interviews with live field correspondent reports, covering both breaking events and longer-term institutional issues in rapid succession. 19. Listeners interested in Mexican public health policy, institutional corruption, and employment economics will find dense, expert-driven analysis across all three areas. 20. Listeners who prefer optimistic economic coverage or who are not familiar with Mexican political figures and public health history will find this episode challenging.

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