The best located region of
Mexico
By joining forces, COPARMEX,
CEDEC North Border Reynosa Region and the Universidad Tamaulipeca, organized
the First Forum for Economic Development without Borders. This important forum
was attended by state and municipal authorities, as well as representatives of
chambers, agencies and businessmen of the Region.
The opening ceremony was led
by the president of the North Border Regional Council, Juan Carlos Perez, who
emphasized that “we are geographically the best located region of Mexico, the
door of one of the most important commercial corridors in the world opens
before us, which begins in our city, crosses the United States, the East Coast
and ends in Canada, Mexico is great, Mexico is better than we think,” he said.
Keith Patridge, president of
the McAllen Economic Development Corporation, presented the conference “Economic
Overview of the Region in the Global Environment.”
It has been nearly 30 years
since the McAllen Economic Development Corporation began working with city
officials and business leaders in Reynosa to lay the groundwork for the
binational manufacturing sector that has brought so much prosperity to our
cities. Due to this, he presented data regarding the jobs that have been
generated since then and the number of companies that have arrived in McAllen
and Reynosa, as well as data on all that expansion project of the companies
that have been made in these years .
The Forum was also developed
with a panel discussion with the topic “Regional Sustainable and Competitive
Development,” in which Juan Acra Lopez, president of the Mexican Energy Council
and Ruy Matias Canales Gonzalez participated; in addition, the topic: “Importance
of Binational Relations in the Economic Environment” was addressed by Guillermo
Ordorica, Mexican consul in McAllen.
To close these Forum
presentations, was the presence of Gustavo A. De Hoyos Walther, President of
the Confederation of Employers of the Mexican Republic (COPARMEX, by its
Spanish initials) who gave the lecture: “Competitiveness and Regulatory
Improvement.”
The Consul of Mexico in
McAllen, Jose Guillermo Ordorica Robles; the deputy Ana Lidia Luevano Santos
and the Secretary of Economic Development and Employment of the Municipality,
Mario Villalpando Ortiz attended the event in the auditorium of the Instituto
Politecnico Nacional, where Master Gustavo A. De Hoyos Walther, president of
the Confederation of Employers of the Mexican Republic offered the
“Competitiveness and Regulatory Improvement” a Magisterial Conference.
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