Once more, the "remodeling" of the Mexico City airport is a historic failure by the previous and current administration. A new airport was being built, funded solely by private money and the previous administration made a non-binding public poll on whether to cancel it because of baseless corruption accusations. That was 8 years ago, and as it turns out, Mexico City desperately needed a new airport anyways. So the Army took a military base and expanded it to build a toy airport far away, which no one uses, so they had to pour money into the old, aging airport. Renewables is also a smoke screen, last administration spent 0 on the energy infra and now that's why we face blackouts every other day.

More insidiously this infra work is being used by Morena to further militarize Mexico. The military is everywhere in this country and its power and reach continue to grow.

Something that fits to a poor struggling country, not some upper crust infra renewal.

Poor people need rail, busses, cars and the cheapest possible power. If the government does not provide the cartels are more then ready to do its job to placate the citizens.

Did you even read my comment? Rail, roads, and hospitals are not "upper crust" infrastructure

Thank you for putting the burden of proof on me instead of wearing that coat yourself- like the optics guy you are.

Well: Energy is 54 % of the money. Which is mostly for the industry up north. Renewables are decorative in the percentage.

Rail: 15.63 % - again mostly for the norther industrial zone- and some link ups with the southern neighbours (under the guise of helping the backwards regions down there).

Roads: 13.94 % same though alot of it is also for tourism. But also logistics.

Ports: 7% Sofar its mostly a trade and industry support program- bluntly directed at becoming the usas new industrial heartland.

The problematic part is that most of this infrastructure is private loan based investment in partnership with the mexican goverment. US-companies will own significant parts of the infrastructure down there and thus have a handle on the government.

This is mostly a "re-industrialize" the us plan without having the problems with industr you have in the us.

Girl, I'm not sure where you get off when you provided as much evidence as me.

I don't see how any of your statistics reinforce your original comment. Do you believe there are not poor people in the north and they all live in the south?

I share your concern about public-private partnerships, but Sheinbaum's infrastructure framework explicitly requires strategic assets, like in energy, oil, and power, remain under public control and have majority public oversight.

Not to make a weak appeal to authority but have you spent much time in Mexico and much time speaking with locals? Those initiative are widely viewed as either failures, DOA, or political chips to appeal to the Morena base (which even then fails).

I have spoken to "locals" but I wouldn't call that a representative sample. She's been in power for less than 2 years so maybe let's hold off before drawing any conclusions. They may well turn out as failures but it's certainly too early to make any conclusions when there's still hundreds of groundbreaking ceremonies that haven't even happened

FWIW she's still one of the most popular leaders in all of South America

no... Mexico is in north america

and if you follow Mexican politics, her politics are almost entirely a continuation of the last president who was her political mentor so it's reasonably well understood what trajectory her term is on

I meant to type Latin America. Too late to edit.

You mean to say she will reach her term limit and step down?

mexican presidents serve a single term... I'm sure you mean well but you have lot of reading to do about mexican politics :)

exactly as amlo did bud

To be fair, we Brazilians also like her very much. She’s a Mexican Lula and we wish her success.

> speaking with locals?

Why? Are they experts in bootstrapping industrial bases? Or healthcare? Or transport?