Manolo can boast Puerto Verde to the world

La Razón

Manolo can boast Puerto Verde to the world

October 26, 2023

By Mauricio Flores

English Translation

Surely there will be follow-up to the agreements taken at the forum “Invest in Mexico” held for several days in Shanghai, China, at the initiative of the Mexican ambassador Jesús Seade, an event where one of the outstanding participations was that of the elected governor of Coahuila, Manolo Jiménez, who can now present to the companies of that nation (and many others) the opportunity to relocate their productive and logistical processes on the border line with the United States, between Piedras Negras and Eagle Pass, in the industrial park and multimodal bridge of Puerto Verde, which is led by the transport entrepreneur Ruben Garibay.

Unlike the border crossings Laredo or Mexicali, Ciudad Acuña or Santa Teresa, where the shortage is already noticeable – and therefore the increase of land, as well as water and energy, in addition to the loss of up to 13 hours at the crossing of a truck from one country to another, the proposal of Puerto Verde, which involves an area of 8,000 hectares, has an abundance of water, high availability of electricity (yes, of the one provided by Manuel Bartlett’s CFE), a great potential for solar generation. In order to obtain certificates of clean energy, geographical proximity, it is in a non-seismic area…, and in political terms it has the support of Maverick County, with which there is already an agreement of Public-Private Association and which is the promoter for Joe Biden to issue, within a period of not more than 60 days, the presidential permit that authorizes a binational infrastructure to dispatch up to 2,000 trucks per day on Interstate 27, the most modern and automated U.S. road.

Wow, Texan Gov. Greg Abbot also supports the bill (because he avoids and controls illegal people migration), has the approval of Bruce Bugg of the Texas Department of Transportation and Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn.

On the Mexican side, the directors of Puerto Verde coordinate with the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport, of Jorge Nuño, with that of Foreign Affairs, by Alicia Bárcena, and with that of Defense, of Cresencio Sandoval, under the understanding that properly exploited, this development can generate a GDP of 28 billion dollars per year and 320 thousand jobs.

And, no less interesting: Andrés Manuel López Obrador could give him the starting banner in the first half of 2024.