Regression of differenciation of functional systems in mexico due to covid-19 pandemic: Human rights system subsumed by political system

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Pastora Melgar
Daniel Márquez

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The year 2020 came with SARS CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 pandemic. Governments all around the world have been forced to take measures to protect public health. On the one hand slack or risky measures can strain health care systems and put many lives in danger but, on the other hand, severe measures can entail significant economic, social and human rights burdens.In this paper using the deductive-argumentative method, we examine the effect administrative regulations that contain preventive and extraordinary measures due to COVID 19-pandemic issued by Mexican authorities along with a weak health system have on rule of law and, as a result, on human rights and the differentiated functional systems. We consider that through administrative rulings, the political system in Mexico is subsuming different social processes, jeopardizing human rights and the rule of law, and leaving citizens in a state of unnoticed fragility.

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Melgar , P., & Márquez , D. (2023). Regression of differenciation of functional systems in mexico due to covid-19 pandemic: Human rights system subsumed by political system. Derecho Global. Estudios Sobre Derecho Y Justicia, 9(25: Nov. 2023 - Feb. 2024), 111–145. https://doi.org/10.32870/dgedj.v9i25.441
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Pastora Melgar , Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México

Doctor in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and psychology student. She is a full-time career research professor in the fundamental multidisciplinary area, SUAyED Law at the FES Acatlán of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His areas of interest are: legal integrity and research, fiscal policy and human rights, right to health and vital minimum

Daniel Márquez , Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México

Doctor in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Full-time researcher at the UNAM Legal Research Institute

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