The first Morena government will arrive in Yucatan in 12 days. So far, things are like this: If you find an electrician in Mérida, take a photo with him. There isn't.
The illusion of a peaceful life in a Mexican state attracted as many people to that corner of the country as investment in infrastructure and houses. Lack of labor available for construction and maintenance.
It happens that with the peace of the security offer, the state rode a wave of economic growth that began about 9 years ago, when the construction of the “Official Residence of Los Pinos” was announced at the watershed of local industry. a Grupo Modelo brewery in a Yucatecan area that used to be nothing more than a “Modelorama” surrounded by stray dogs.
The railway tracks, the gas pipeline and the new electric transmission lines came, and behind them the power plants. Envases Universales, then Keken, Grupo Kúo's pork producer. Then the small industrial parks, which together changed the village of Hunucmá, neighboring Mérida, which received a few billion dollars of investment over the course of 5 years, which is not nearly comparable to the situation of the previous bonanzas.
Thus, under PRI governor Rolando Zapata, a new economic phase began for a state that did not wake up after the collapse of the eighties, the era of henequen, the “green gold”.
The management of the lawyer has also begun Ernesto Herrera Novel – former managing director of the global consulting firm EY – Minister of Economic Development (SEFOET), whom PAN governor Mauricio Vila kept in his post in 2018 despite the change of government.
Continuity paid off, with more manufacturing and distribution centers coming from Amazon, Mercado Libre, and Walmart, catering to a growing local and migrant population eager for new services. In addition, shopping centers: Thor Urbana, The Harbor, Grupo Gicsa, La Isla Mérida and hundreds of investors filled the capital with shopping centers.
The state's GDP grew from $15 billion to $24 billion a year in a decade.
At the end of this month, Vila – currently a senator – and Secretary of State Herrera will leave the state government.
But in a sign of the political willingness of the entity's residents, the capital will continue to be governed by PAN member Cecilia Patrón and the new Morenoista governor, Joaquín Díaz Mena, “Huacho,” a skilled man from a fishing town. and a popular merchant, admits that he began his political career as a member of the ranks of the Albiazules.
He left the PAN when the bad leadership of the party's national leader, Marko Cortés, took away his loyalty to the party.
Yesterday, Díaz Mena presented the other members of his cabinet, in which, in addition to some experienced officials, such as Luis Felipe Saiden Ojedawho repeats as minister of public security, highlights the well-known figure of the music artist, Federica Quijano, as secretary of sustainable development.
The key to economic continuity remains in your hands Jorge Ermilo Barrera Noveloa young Yucatecan from the Ministry of Economy in Puebla who replaces Herrera at SEFOET. Local businessmen credit him with being the architect of the one billion euro investment in the new Audi plant.
In his country, the duties of a startup mean the continuity of already announced projects, such as a new Heineken brewery and a new production facility for Mission Foods from Grupo Masecawhich have already been agreed upon.
He is also entrusted with the “Mayan Renaissance” promoted by his boss, the governor-elect.
The project will indeed work is a sign of the completion of the Progreso port expansion, which has been managed for six years and which can now finally receive presidential approval from the hands of Claudia Sheinbaum.
What is urgent so that the state does not stop it? Electricity production will be abundant, but along with electricians, the transmission lines serving the northern part of Mérida are missing. What is urgent: solve the imbalance of the abundance of waste and lack of drainage in a big city that doesn't stop growing.