CLAUDIA UCEDA: As hospitals across the country struggle to save lives, the President is focusing on the economic health of businesses at risk of disappearing because of the coronavirus.
CAROLINA SARASSA: There's a lot of controversy in Washington right now as well as throughout the country because of President Donald Trump's words, and many say he would be placing the economy above lives.
ENRIQUE ACEVEDO: The results contrast with President Trump's insistence on reviving the country's economy, despite the cost this will have in lives.
UCEDA: Another very important point is that Trump is now concentrating on saving lives, not so much on the economy anymore.
JORGE RAMOS: I think it is becoming clear that there are two totally different versions and visions as to how this pandemic should be acted upon. On the one hand, those who believe that you have to tighten up even further with a national quarantine and others who believe, like President Donald Trump, that we have to open up little by little and that we can do both.
RAMOS: Life has to be above anything else. We understand the personal reasons, the economic reasons, the desperation at home, that there is no money for rent. But lives, in other words, how do we sacrifice a life and whose life is sacrificed? When faced with this- this is impossible. This, this, is totally out of the question.
RAMOS: How do you strike this balance to decide whether to protect life or to protect the economy?
RAMOS: I suppose you're making the most difficult decisions of your political career by striking a balance between life versus the economy. How do you do it?
RAMOS: The importance of politics. It's just going out, making a decision and that's it. You make a decision and the consequences in Georgia- we're talking about human lives.
RAMOS: I see how the United States is slowly reopening even if we're not prepared or scientists say it's not the moment to do so.
RAMOS: The cases and deaths continue to rise in the rest of the United States, throughout the United States, except in New York. They keep rising. And at the same time, 43 states say: ‘I don't care, we're going out, we're going to normalize life, we're going to reopen the economy.’