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Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday July 2, 2022, p. 4
Paraíso, Tab., President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asserted that a large part of the infrastructure projects he has undertaken in his three years and seven months in office have focused on an area that has been forgotten for decades: the south.
We are doing justice to the south-southeast of Mexico, because the south also exists
he emphasized when referring to various works undertaken throughout his administration, with public investment and without contracting debt
one of which saw the inauguration of its first stage yesterday: the Olmeca refinery.
As part of his quarterly work report – which he offered yesterday in the midst of the celebrations for the fourth anniversary of his victory at the polls – the president highlighted that 25,000 people were employed for the construction of this refinery, and at the end they will be out of work, but will be hired on other projects in the region.
Thus, he outlined, a coking plant will be developed in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca (to refine fuel oil and convert it into gasoline and diesel), which will require between 8 and 10 thousand jobs. Other jobs will be necessary to continue with the construction of the more than 1,500 kilometers of the Mayan Train. So, those who have already done their work here, in Dos Bocas, will not be left without work.
assured.
As part of the works, he highlighted, the Felipe Ángeles International Airport was inaugurated and work is being done on the Tulum airport. In addition, progress is being made in the industrial parks, the modernization of ports and the construction of several railway projects: the Tehuantepec Isthmus train, the Coatzacoalcos to Palenque train – in order to join the Mayan Train – and the rehabilitation of the railway from Ixtepec, Oaxaca, to the border with Guatemala.
My commitment is to achieve in 2024 the rebirth of passenger railways with a network of 2,600 kilometers throughout the country
he asserted.
Progress is also being made in hydraulic works for energy production, agricultural development and domestic consumption in Sinaloa, Nuevo León, Nayarit, Jalisco, La Laguna and Campeche.
In economic matters, López Obrador indicated that despite the crisis unleashed by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the country is moving forward, and our currency is the strongest in Latin America and has appreciated more than the euro in the time we have been
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He added that the national economy grew one percent in the first quarter of this year, and inflation at the end of May was 7.6 percent, one point less than in the United States and half a point less than in Europe.
There are 21 million 68 thousand 708 workers (formal employment) registered with the IMSS, with an average salary of 14 thousand 600 pesos per month; In addition, the minimum wage has grown by 67 percent in real terms under the current administration.
Foreign investment in the first quarter of 2022 reached the historical number
of 19 thousand 428 million dollars, and in December remittances could reach 60 thousand million dollars. Thank you countrymen!
(With information from Emir Olivares)
