Capital flight

摘要

In an old music classroom in the Culture Palace in Tlaxcala, two hours' drive east of Mexico City, sits Alejandra Frausto, Mexico's culture minister. She hopes her new office's bare walls will soon sport a screen for video-conferencing with Mexico City and beyond. Hers is one of the first two ministries to move under a policy of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, usually known as amlo, elected last year. Resurrecting an idea first mooted in the 1980s, he wants to move a big central-government body to each of 30 Mexican states. Tlaxca-la's state capital has 85,000 people, only eight times more than the culture ministry's staff in Mexico City. Ms Frausto dreams of one day having thousands of workers in the state.