Frankly, I don’t know how companies can move product over these terrible roads, which have gone steadily downhill in the 16 years we’ve lived here, and have stuff and the truck arrive in one piece.

As long as roads are thrown up overnight and fall apart in a year (local examples, Mex 15 north from Jocotepec and the Jocotepec bypass itself) and seemingly built and maintained on a whim, the roads in this country are going to put a lid on economic activity, particularly in the interior of the country.

Mexico doesn’t have the wealth to fund its own growth. It is easy to whine about economic colonialism whilst living on a foreign pension but those jobs are the difference between eating and not for a whole lot of people in this country.

Unfortunately Neil, Mexico has a long history of nationalizing companies that underperform and lose money (see Pemex and CFE). In the past 25 years, Mexico has had to turn over 1000 companies back to the private sector due to inefficiency and loss of money. Sheinbaum knows this and thus views this approach as more pragmatic.

more pragmatic?

This gave the whole article away… The assumption that the only way to address apparent deficits in energy generation is to allow foreign companies (read US companies) to come in and suck out the profits for their foreign investors.

I’m getting tired of reading articles in this publication by people whose only objective seems to be to bolster the profits of foreign corporations.

How about those profits stay in Mexico and benefit the entire population not just the foreign elites?