Before business leaders, academics, and representatives of civil society organizations from the Sea of Cortés Region, Eduardo Bohórquez The role of government and the private sector in the creation of a sustainable development model was discussed. prosperous future for Mexico.
The Executive Director of Transparencia Mexicana was the guest speaker at the 31st session of Voices from the Sea of Cortezwith the theme Challenges and scenarios for the Sea of Cortés Region in the new political and governmental configuration of the country.
Bohórquez offered a critical and in-depth view of the country's geopolitical and infrastructure strategies, but emphasized the regional context.
"The government is not going to bring neither hope nor prosperity, that is the point, that is why I started with the regions and that is why I started with local identities. Those who generate hope and prosperity are in this call," he stressed. "What they want from their government is that it does not hinder them, it is that it does not harm them, it does not change the conditions for them to make long-term decisions to be able to invest."
Before the participants of the virtual meeting convened by Sea of Cortez Forumindicated that there will be a reasonably good period ahead for Mexico if it is clear to this group that this region, which is composed of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa y Sonorais the place of hope and prosperityand that the government, which is the one that should set the conditions for decision making, helps to build this.
"So prosperity starts here and hope starts here. You do need a government that helps, that works and there is the issue of security," he insisted.
Mexico is not and does not look like Venezuela
In his presentation, the expert on transparency and anti-corruption issues stated that there are people and sectors of society who live in an echo chamber, and who want to leave Mexico because they only say terrible things about the future of the country, comparing it with the future of the country. Venezuelawhen it is nowhere near that.
"If you want to go live in Valencia, go live in Valencia, but not for the wrong reasons, not because this is becoming Venezuela, because that is false. This is the 14th largest economy on the planet. It is not Venezuela nor does it look like Venezuela," he maintained.
Bohorquez even stated that there is no more neoliberal and neoclassical government in the history of Mexico than that of the President. Andrés Manuel López ObradorThe business elite had the right to a doorknob, with enormous returns on investment for large companies.
"Zero deficit and no comprehensive tax reform is passed, no more federal taxes, we are not going to bail out any company in the pandemic, that's (Milton) Friedman, then, they know what they are doing, they take power with the left, but they touch it with the right," he expressed.
Mexico's scenario in global geopolitics
The President-elect's first public foreign policy act Claudia Sheinbaum was on June 3, when he took a picture with the Ambassador of China. The interpretation is that first it was China, then United Statessaid Eduardo Bohórquez.
The Executive Director of Transparencia Mexicana added that the real infrastructure project of President López Obrador is not the Mayan train or the Dos Bocas refinery, but rather the interoceanic corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
If the inter-oceanic corridor is completed, he stressed, this will be the most important geopolitical change for Mexico in the next 50 to 100 years.
"Who's going to own it, who's going to be the capital, the Danes, the Chinese? Those are the big questions, who is going to be your banker in this matter, who is going to finance it? The Danes are going to have to put a lot of effort into it because Europe is in crisis, so we have a geopolitical card, but we have to choose very well how to play it: towards the north, nearshoring, and in the isthmus, I believe that this is the most important geopolitical issue for Mexico", he insisted.
Bohórquez said that the biggest subsidy that the Government of the Republic will provide for the interoceanic corridor is security, to be provided by the armed forces, because this is the highest cost for a company building a project of this magnitude.
"I am not in favor of militarization, but I understand a little bit of geopolitics and costs, as to know that there will be no inter-oceanic corridor if the companies have to pay for security to build in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, it will not be enough, you start to raise costs exponentially, so it is a more complicated game and that is what I think it is worth understanding," he said.
For this reason, he insisted that while the geopolitical game in which Mexico plays in the new environment is a task for the Federal Government and the state governments to understand, the hope and prosperity of a region depend on its leadership.
