In Mexico, $15,000 pesos will guarantee your loved one’s death certificate omits COVID-19 as cause of death

In the face of the coronavirus pandemic in Mexico, some people have chosen, in exchange for a fee of $15,000 pesos, to have death certificates of their loved ones altered to remove the cause of death as probable COVID-19 infection.

The "managers" or "coyotes" issuing death certificates offer the document stating the cause of death by asthma or atypical pneumonia instead of COVID-19 or probable COVID-19.

As part of a journalistic investigation, Animal Político compiled information on the practices of these "managers", who are inside a court specially authorized by . . .

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