The governments of Mexico and the United States agreed this Thursday to accelerate the completion of infrastructure works on their common border, emphasizing the implementation of technology to increase security on the busiest binational border in the world.
The agreement contemplates an investment to date of 700 million dollars, which have already been authorized by both governments, destined for 14 projects on the Mexican side and six on the US side, which should be operational by the end of 2023, reported the Secretary of Relations Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, during the Strategic Border Infrastructure Forum.
“We come on instructions from the President of the Republic, it is a follow-up to the conversation that President Biden and President López Obrador had in Washington last year, it was a very long conversation, easily three hours, and a topic they touched on was this, that we have to modernize the infrastructure on the border,” he detailed from Tijuana.
He pointed out that with the new geopolitical reality, in addition to other risks, the fact that the border between Mexico and the United States works well has a high priority for obvious reasons, “because the integration between the two countries is going, it will also accelerate due to reshoring , because we have integrated our production processes and because we have a High-Level Dialogue between the two governments to accelerate the security of our supply chains”.
In addition, he explained that the production capacity will be increased in medical equipment, semiconductors; and that will pass through the border.
The Mexican foreign minister made this announcement after meeting with the US ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, and the Undersecretary of State for the Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Todd Robinson, in the border city of Tijuana (northwest).
(With information from AFP)