JORGE RAMOS: Tell us, Rosario. How, how are things being handled here in the United States? What if we set aside the health issues and you tell us if you think that the decision to open the states is the right one.
ROSARIO MARIN: Well look, obviously, obviously, there is almost desperation, at least on the part of this president, to reopen the economy because he is aware that his re-election situation is very complicated, that every day it becomes more complicated because he always gambled on the economy and now it is completely shattered. So for him, then, opening the economy is an emergency.
[…]
MARIN: We learned from the last recession of 2009, that we had to act immediately. Because every day that goes by without injecting money into the economy is going to have much more complicated consequences afterwards. And now, then, we‘ve seen that they acted very, very quickly and in a timely manner, some people would say hastily, but this is to prevent the economy from falling any further.
[…]
And not doing anything is even more difficult. Something must be done.
[…]
And I think it is, as difficult as it has been to make these decisions, I don't think they had any other choice.