Number Games

some areas are classifying all deaths as virus related even though the persons would not have survived other wise..... makes the virus deaths look worse than actual

I'd be interested to know where you heard this rumor. All politicians around the world have a vested political interest in keeping the official numbers as low as possible. It's a near certainty that the number of cases and the number of deaths are drastically undercounted, not overcounted.

I fundamentally disagree with your premise. Mexico's president has no interest in being misinformed or of misinforming. He can stretch truth and he does, but you cannot hide Covid-19 deaths because if you did funerarias would quickly become a source of infections, a hot zone, and the bodies would start backing up as they became unable to do business. It is in NO ONE'S interests except dictators and The Chump's to lie about the numbers of infected and deaths.

This is not U.S. bashing, it is the TRUTH.
TRUMP SAYS THOSE ON GRAND PRINCESS CRUISE SHIP SHOULD STAY ON BOAT SO U.S. CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS DON'T GO UP

We've all been expecting things to get worse in Mexico. Perhaps because enough of the right measures were taken ahead of time Mexico has slowed the advance, but THIS is when it was predicted that the numbers would start doubling more rapidly. Dr. Hugo López-Gatell and his team at the SSA have done a very good if not exemplary job so far getting Mexico ready for what must come. At no time has he been hindered by politicians seeking to deceive the public, and the politicians would possibly literally be committing suicide if they got caught lying to the public now.

You have to understand that Yucatán is heavily PANista and very anti-PRD, anti-Morena, anti-AMLO. Thus their tendency to print stories critical of AMLO such as the one Ironwood referred to even if they have to stretch the truth themselves.