Rodrigo Pérez Ortega , Inés Gutiérrez JaberScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.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.