Governing the Pandemic from the Municipality: Mexican Realities and Challenges in the Face of COVID-19

The research lists and discusses the combat measures implemented by governments to confront COVID-19. Likewise, the factual and prospective planning processes carried out in response to how to govern the pandemic are reported. The State of Mexico was taken up as the study universe, a perspective that made it possible to analyze the sociopolitical and health actions deployed by municipal administrations with the intention of reducing and/or controlling both the number of infections and deaths. The study took into consideration the collateral effects of the pandemic, as well as impacts on social interaction processes, repercussions of the government system, as well as public issues. Finally, realize that the scope and sociopolitical challenges that Mexico, the State of Mexico and its municipalities faced, faced kaleidoscopic futures that changed direction as the behavior of a virus was managed to be deciphered that gave rise to what was called "new normal".