This is going to go absolutely nowhere. There's really no market for these and the govt. would rather focus on something flashy like a new car instead of infrastructure or anything that could threaten Pemex (god forbid...)

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culi 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Famously, she's focused a lot of her infrastructure work on expansion of rail. Including the 5.6 trillion peso Plan México and 3,000 new km of passenger train lines. She's also remodeling the Mexico City airport, modernizing and repairing 4,000 km of roads, and pushed the National Hospital Infrastructure Plan that will fund massive expansions of three major hospital systems. Also half of the infrastructure budget is allocated to energy infrastructure. Specifically to fund her massive clean energy transition. 70% of new energy is to come from renewables.

What other infrastructure do you have in mind?

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blovescoffee 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Not to make a weak appeal to authority but have you spent much time in Mexico and much time speaking with locals? Those initiative are widely viewed as either failures, DOA, or political chips to appeal to the Morena base (which even then fails).

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eduardosalaz 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Once more, the "remodeling" of the Mexico City airport is a historic failure by the previous and current administration. A new airport was being built, funded solely by private money and the previous administration made a non-binding public poll on whether to cancel it because of baseless corruption accusations. That was 8 years ago, and as it turns out, Mexico City desperately needed a new airport anyways. So the Army took a military base and expanded it to build a toy airport far away, which no one uses, so they had to pour money into the old, aging airport. Renewables is also a smoke screen, last administration spent 0 on the energy infra and now that's why we face blackouts every other day.

	▲	blovescoffee 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		More insidiously this infra work is being used by Morena to further militarize Mexico. The military is everywhere in this country and its power and reach continue to grow.

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cineticdaffodil 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Something that fits to a poor struggling country, not some upper crust infra renewal.

Poor people need rail, busses, cars and the cheapest possible power. If the government does not provide the cartels are more then ready to do its job to placate the citizens.

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culi 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Did you even read my comment? Rail, roads, and hospitals are not "upper crust" infrastructure

	▲	cineticdaffodil an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you for putting the burden of proof on me instead of wearing that coat yourself- like the optics guy you are. Well: Energy is 54 % of the money. Which is mostly for the industry up north. Renewables are decorative in the percentage. Rail: 15.63 % - again mostly for the norther industrial zone- and some link ups with the southern neighbours (under the guise of helping the backwards regions down there). Roads: 13.94 % same though alot of it is also for tourism. But also logistics. Ports: 7% Sofar its mostly a trade and industry support program- bluntly directed at becoming the usas new industrial heartland. The problematic part is that most of this infrastructure is private loan based investment in partnership with the mexican goverment. US-companies will own significant parts of the infrastructure down there and thus have a handle on the government. This is mostly a "re-industrialize" the us plan without having the problems with industr you have in the us.