Juan Carlos G. Partida
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, January 8, 2025, p. 8
Guadalajara, Jal., As the consultation forums of the National Development Plan continued in Jalisco, the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, said that the navigation chart followed in economic matters in Mexico in a time like the current one consists of not be alarmed and yes in knowing how to avoid the “stormy waters where there are very large protectionist tendencies associated with nationalism, which had not been the center in the richest country on the planet.
“President (Donald) Trump, in his first term, had already come up with the same issue, but there was no political consensus like the one we have today, with the majority of both chambers and with that level or that extreme in many of the approaches he has made (…)
I’m even talking about well-known global media, which continue to insist that the increase in Mexican exports is because we are now bringing Chinese products and sending them to the United States.
he pointed out to those attending the Moral Economy and Work forum, held at the University Center for Economic-Administrative Sciences of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG).
He stated that on January 20 (when Trump takes office) everything will not change from one day to the next, because Mexico is the main exporter to the United States, but also the main importer of goods from that country and one of the main destinations for your investments.
If Jalisco does well, so does the country.
Ebrard said that it was chosen to hold the economic forums here because If Jalisco does well, then the country will also do well
in addition to the fact that the state is home to the largest semiconductor industry in Mexico.
The Emecista governor Pablo Lemus highlighted that the entity is a power in many areas ranging from the agroindustrial sector to the so-called Silicon Valley Mexican.
The elected rector of the UdeG, Karla Planter, recalled that universities are not the only spaces for the production of knowledge, but They also diagnose and present alternatives to solve current and future problems, that is, they are ahead of the times, so to influence social reality, such knowledge must become public policy.
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