There’s a famous meme on social media of two characters from the Pawn Stars series that goes, “I don’t know Rick, it looks fake.” With that expression they doubt the authenticity of something that seems too good to be true.
Apparently more than one businessman let that meme go to the phones of other attendees at the meeting at the Kaluz Museum last week between President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and members of the Business Coordinating Council and the Mexican Business Council.
Once again, the convened businessmen listened to the presidential version of the “Vamos Requetebien”, with all that complement of other data that will always be there to endorse every word of the Supreme Leader.
Many looked at the clock, some to anticipate the end of the meeting and others waiting for a specific date in 2024, but all tried to show maximum attention to their interlocutors and maximum availability to do what they had to do.
Officially, in this new meeting between representatives of the business sector and López Obrador, investments, the new infrastructure investment package and the participation of Mexican investors in next month’s meeting between the presidents of Mexico and the United States were discussed.
That should be the usual content of a meeting between the political power and the economic power of a country. But that daily monitoring dynamic has been broken since the beginning of this administration.
Nor was it a meeting where the mea culpa of the bad public policies that have pushed back the execution of new investments that promote economic development finally arrived.
Rather, it was a meeting in which, apart from the transformation monologue, the businessmen spoke about the investments that are at risk due to the lack of energy, starting with the limits that are now placed on the purchase of natural gas.
This autocratic government continues with the destruction of the competition schemes and now with an official letter they want to put an end to the natural gas commercialization market and force the companies to buy that energy from the CFE or Pemex. Even going over existing contracts.
The new public-private safe infrastructure program will arrive on board the Mexico-Querétaro train announced in one of the previous plans, because there is no date for its announcement.
And from the meeting of businessmen, within the framework of the López-Biden meeting, there will be no lack of the American investor who asks Mexicans to blink twice if they feel in danger.
Hopefully that parallel business table can be held during the presidential meeting at the White House, because if there is something that American businessmen have, unlike Mexicans, it is the support of their government to protect their investments.
Nothing like maintaining those contacts between Mexican investors and the López Obrador regime. A change in the signals towards an adequate promotion of investments is practically impossible, but this dialogue of survival must be maintained.
Investment, what worries
At risk
The businessmen spoke of the investments that are at risk due to the lack of energy, beginning with the limits that are now placed on the purchase of natural gas.
Interlocution
A change in the signals towards an adequate promotion of investments is practically impossible, but this dialogue of survival must be maintained.
The counterpart
If there is one thing that US businessmen have, unlike Mexicans, it is the backing of their government to protect their investments.
Televisa News Anchor
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Degree in Communication Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, with a specialty in finance from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico and a master’s degree in Journalism from the Anahuac University.
His professional career has been dedicated to different media. He is currently a columnist for the newspaper El Economista and news anchor on Televisa. He is the owner of the 2 pm news space on Foro TV.
He is a specialist in economic-financial issues with more than 25 years of experience as a commentator and host on radio and television. He has been part of companies such as Radio Programas de México, where he participated in VIP business radio. He was also part of the management and talent team of Radio Formula.