This article argues that whilst indigenous people are central to the Mexican president's official developmentalist discourse of bringing prosperity to the country's marginalised and poor, their needs during the COVID‐19 pandemic have not been met and their interests have been sidelined. Whilst experiencing serious loss of trading revenue, negative impacts of misinformation, and lack of access to appropriate healthcare, indigenous Mexicans also faced the aggressive advance on their territories of large‐scale infrastructure projects, which have become the backbone of the president's strategy for countering the economic recession caused by the pandemic. The discontinuation of relevant legal means to challenge the advance of the megaprojects during the pandemic effectively threatened indigenous people's democratic rights to protect their land, identities and way of life.

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将大型基础设施项目放在首位：墨西哥本土发生的COVID-19大流行

本文认为，尽管土著人民是墨西哥总统关于为该国边缘化和贫困人口带来繁荣的官方发展主义话语的核心，但在COVID-19大流行期间他们的需求尚未得到满足，他们的利益也被搁置了。在遭受严重的贸易收入损失，错误信息的负面影响以及无法获得适当医疗保健的同时，墨西哥土著人也面临着其大型基础设施项目领域的激进进步，这些已成为总统应对金融危机战略的骨干力量。大流行造成的经济衰退。在大流行期间停止使用相关法律手段来挑战大型项目的发展，实际上威胁了土著人民的生存。