▲ The President announced that 10 billion pesos will be invested in three drinking water projects for Tamaulipas.Photo Presidency
Nestor Jimenez
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La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, January 25, 2026, p. 3
Reynosa, Tamps., Just a few kilometers from the border with the United States, in the city of Reynosa, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said: “we negotiate and work” with the neighboring country to the north, but stressed that “we never subordinate ourselves.”
The above, after the global tension that has been generated along with the statements of leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in Switzerland, and the constant references that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has made about Mexico.
During two events that the President led yesterday in this Tamaulipas municipality, she pointed out that “Mexico will always be a free, independent and sovereign country. And here. On this border it is even more symbolic to say it.”
Yesterday, the head of the federal Executive led the symbolic delivery of the first actions of the Housing for Well-being Program in the Florencia Housing Unit, located on the outskirts of the city, and later moved to the Convention Center, where she also delivered cards for beneficiaries of social programs.
Despite the low temperatures and strong wind that were recorded yesterday in the northern part of the country, hundreds of people came to the new housing unit to witness the event, where he noted that before the Fourth Transformation arrived, housing had become “a business” during the neoliberal governments, but he stressed that “it must be a right; not a business, not a commodity, not a privilege.”
For his part, the governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal, as well as the general director of Infonavit, Octavio Romero Oropeza, and the head of the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu), Edna Vega Rangel, detailed that for Tamaulipas a six-year goal of 84 thousand new homes was established, and last year alone the construction of 45 thousand was already contracted.
Meanwhile, at the Reynosa Convention Center, together with secretaries and undersecretaries of four agencies, it was announced that among the projects for this district this year is the repaving of 407 kilometers of the Federal Toll-Free Network, with an investment of 2,073 million pesos; restructuring of the transportation system and works for the Mexico-Nuevo Laredo Train route.
Nearly 10 billion pesos will also be allocated for three drinking water projects: the construction of the Guadalupe Victoria I aqueduct, a new water treatment plant and the modernization of more than 27 thousand hectares of irrigation.
“You are not going to tell me that we do not want Tamaulipas. You have already heard: roads, from San Luis to Tampico, (and) from Veracruz to Reynosa; another Nuevo Laredo bridge; repaving of federal highways; schools for Reynosa, a new high school and new technological institute; water works, efficient irrigation for more food, to bring water to the communities,” said the President.
In addition, the Undersecretary of Welfare, Jesús Valencia, added that in Tamaulipas there is a social investment of more than 23 billion pesos in the different Welfare programs.
