The city is calm and okay, but it has a very ugly fame. He burned and we have battled to get her out of that bump
Carmen Lilia Canturosa, Mayor of Nuevo Laredo.
Although urban contrasts are evident, the battle for trust is not won with statistics or maps. You win with results.
That premise promotes the second mandate of Cantideases. If the first stage served to lift a city “made claws” for the abandonment of the past administration, now seeks to consolidate growth, attract investment and generate modern infrastructure.
And all part from within: first you have to recover the confidence of the local entrepreneur. Then foreign capital will arrive with more certainties.
The mayor states that Nuevo Laredo seduces again, step by step. The city closed 2024 with an unemployment rate of just 1.5% and a wave of industrial expansion that already exceeds the limits of the west.
Companies such as Medline, American leader of surgical supplies, total 6,000 active jobs and a new 68,000 square meters plant. Others, such as Boing and Rheem, prepare investments for hundreds of millions.
At all pace, the mayor wants to order her. He doesn’t want another improvised city. That is why it has drawn clear lines between residential, industrial and commercial areas and insists on offering services where they did not arrive before. For example, where there was a garbage dump, the Municipal Infoteca was built. Where sofones sprouted before, new pipes flow now.
I want the investment to arrive, but I don’t want a messy city
Great projects come
The transformation has key points. One of them: the modernization of the Mex II road that connects with the World Trade Bridge. A work arrested for two decades that today advances with municipal resources. It has a 75% advance and it is expected to finish it in September.
Another: the arrival of the National Customs Agency (ANAM), with almost finished facilities, bedrooms, new schools and the expectation of thousands of federal officials moving with family included.
This already pushes the demand for housing, electrical substations and medical services.
This will also come a general hospital of the IMSS, already approved, and the expansion of the commercial bridge, which will double its capacity for 2026. While the CFE is about to finish an electrical substation in the west of the city and another will begin in the south.
The passenger train is also on its way. The Monterrey-Saltillo-Nuevo Laredo line is part of the priority projects of the Federal Government, which is planned to initiate its construction in next month. “That will also be a trigger.”
The look also points to heaven. The city will receive a modernization of the International Airport, today lagged in front of the volume of load that travels by land.
It is urgent
The eyes open and the city cannot be left behind. In three years, Nuevo Laredo invested more than 1.5 billion pesos only in sanitary and storm drainage. With NadBank support and a mixture of federal, state and municipal resources, the city rescued contaminated bodies of water and managed to channel the discharges towards the whistle. The water that reaches the Rio Bravo already passes through cleaning processes supervised by Mexico and the United States.
According to Cantideases, the effort begins to be reflected in indicators. The National Urban Security Survey (Ensu) places Nuevo Laredo among the three best qualified cities in public services. He says that 95% of the population already has access to drinking water. The irregular colonies have decreased. And the city recovered several green spaces.
“The city is taking more direction, we have more things to do.”
But the mayor knows that the progress in which she works does not have a guarantee of continuity when her mandate ends. For her it would be a mistake to leave this route. “Plusvalía is already generated, we have already reactivated commercial areas. The city cannot go back,”
