Mexico Int’l Trade Figures Increase

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Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo said that public policies have boosted commerce. PHOTO COURTESY OF PRESIDENT’S OFFICE

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Foreign commerce in Mexico increased from 20 to 65 percent of the Gross Domestic Product in the last 25 years, Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal said Thursday.

During the award ceremony for the 2014 National Quality Award, the secretary said that Mexico is becoming more important in international commerce as a result of public policy and private initiatives.

Through these initiatives, Mexico has become the main exporter world-wide of 33 manufactured products and 23 agricultural goods, as well as the premier exporter in Latin America, Guajardo Villarreal said at Los Pinos presidential residence.

This accomplishment was achieved thanks to the quality and innovation of Mexico’s productive processes, he said. For 25 years, the National Quality Award has recognized the most competitive, innovative and socially responsible companies in Mexico.

The world recognizes the innovative capacity of Mexicans and their ability to adapt to the changing world in which we live, Guajardo said. The proof of this is evident in direct foreign investment, which reached $30 billion between 2012 and 2014.

Biomédica de Referencia company general director Clara Corona Lau, National Quality Award prize laureate, said that in order to be considered for the prize, competitiveness and innovation are fundamental.

The common denominator that unifies winning companies is that their principle advantage is human capital, the prize laureate said. People involved in these businesses are ready to change their attitudes and habits in order to be innovative, she said.

President Enrique Peña Nieto led the award ceremony, joined by Education Secretary Emilio Chuayffet and Labor Secretary Alfonso Navarrete.
 

Mexico to have 13 new highways

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Mexico to have 13 new highways

By the end of 2014 there will be 13 new highways in Mexico, said Communications and Transportation Secretary Gerardo Ruiz Esparza on Wednesday in Quintana Roo.

The federal government set out to build 46 new highways at the beginning of Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration. There are 26 highways being built that will be completed before the president’s tenure ends.

These works are part of the implementation of the new telecommunications law, which has already proven to be advantageous to society.

Ruiz Esparza and Peña Nieto inaugurated on Wednesday the Nuevo Xcan-Playa del Carmen highway. By December this year, the Salamanca-Irapuato highway, with an investment of 1.2 billion pesos ($93.7 million), the Mazatlán bypass, with an investment of 1.8 billion pesos, the Guadalajara-Colima highway, with an investment of 500 million pesos, and Chihuahua western bypass will be completed, with a 6.4 billion peso investment.

Once those projects come to an end, they will add to the 700 kilometers of new highway infrastructure that has been built in the first two years of Peña Nieto’s administration with an investment of 55 billion pesos. By the end of his tenure, there will be more 3,000 kilometers of new highways.

On Friday, members of the federal government organized a round table for the Mexico Connected program. It is composed of representatives of civil society, scholars and infrastructure experts who will decide in which public spaces in Quintana Roo install broadband Internet.

The aim is to provide all public elementary, middle and high schools in Quintana Roo with Internet access. The program also includes Internet services in universities, clinics, hospitals, libraries and public parks. It is estimated that between March and December 2015, Quintana Roo will install broadband Internet in all the aforementioned spaces.