Peña launches new highway

Tuesday, 03 December 2013 00:10 
BY MAURILIO SOTO
The News


Upon inaugurating the Mezquital-Huazamota highway in La Candelaria, Durango on Monday, President Enrique Peña Nieto claimed that the proposed and approved reforms during his administration have created “bases of greater development in benefit of Mexican families.”

“In this first year of government there has been much talk of structural reforms, of great transformations, because that is what we have been driving. We have sewed throughout this year important bases that will allow us in the coming years to have greater development and economic growth,” he added.

“For the year 2014, practically all government dependencies, especially those that have much to invest in infrastructure, in roads, in highways, in health, will have more resources. It’s the result of a tax reform that will make it possible that these dependencies and all government agencies have more resources to invest, not to expand the bureaucratic apparatus,” he continued.

While celebrating the beginning of his second year as president with the Tepehuano, Huichol, Cora and Mexicanero ethnic groups of Durango, he said that this is a time to “rediscover our roots and remember that we are one country, plural and with a great diversity.”

He said that the country needs to realize that it is a mosaic of different realities and that “this government is fundamentally focused on achieving development and progress that benefits more Mexicans in all regions of the country.”

The president’s office says that the 1-billion-peso ($76-million) Mezquital-Huazamota highway will benefit indigenous communities and producers in general, reducing transport time from 11 to three hours.

Social Development Secretary Rosario Robles Berlanga was also present at the inauguration, and took the opportunity to talk about the regional enrollment numbers in social programs.

According to her figures, 36,000 women are enrolled in the Women of the Family Insurance Program, more than 30,000 senior citizens are enrolled in the 65 and Up Program, and 380,000 families benefit from the Opportunities program.