Economic Geography

  By instruction of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) authorized the constitution of the majority state-owned company Grupo Aeroportuario Turístico Mexicano, which will be able to carry out all the necessary actions to manage, operate, exploit and build the International Airport of Tepic, Nayarit. To fulfill its functions, the new company will provide airport services, as well as obtain concessions, permits, licenses and any type of government authorization and, in general, will execute all legal acts that are essential or convenient for the management and development of the society. From January to August, the Tepic airport was the sixth, of the 19 under the management of ASA, with the largest number of national passengers: 135,467, with operations of Volaris and Aeromar, while in international passengers it only registered the movement of 36 passengers during August, so far this year. Due to its location, it will be strategic ...

  The communications of the port of San Felipe have been left without working due to the heavy rains that occurred in that municipality, which caused calls to be made and not even the Internet connection by a major telephone company. The Municipal Civil Protection Unit of Mexicali reported that the Telnor company reported that its optical fiber was affected at the height of the highway to San Felipe, in Chinaro. This has affected around 4,000 users in that demarcation. René Rosado, head of the Municipal Civil Protection Unit of Mexicali, said that it is known that in San Felipe there was 85 millimeters of water accumulation in that demarcation. They seek to issue a declaration of emergency in San Felipe after the passage of ‘Kay’and will seek to issue a declaration of emergency due to a natural disaster to receive support in the face of the passage of tropical storm Kay in the port. After a meeting of the Municipal Foundational Council of San Felipe, they announced that they will s...

  POST 7- NEWS  Due to its natural conditions, the city of Tijuana only has the capacity to supply water to 200,000 inhabitants, that is, only 10% of the current population, said Hernando Durán Cabrera, director of Tijuana Verde. He mentioned that although the Tijuana River basin extends from the top of the town of El Hongo, located in Tecate, the rain that falls is insufficient for the more than two million inhabitants of the city. The limit between supply and consumption is exceeded, other water sources must be added, which is why the Colorado River – Tijuana aqueduct was built, but this is also already at the limit of “what it can give us.” in terms of capacity. A possible alternative to guarantee the liquid to the city is to bring it from other supplies or accounts, but these “are very far away”, which makes this option impossible, said the also former director of the State Commission of Public Services of Tijuana (CESPT). Another solution to the scarcity of water is its t...

  In order to generate more tourist offer in Sinaloa, different activities are being developed in the municipalities. According to the director of tourim in Mazatlan, Adolfo Rojo Montoya, there are more things to visit in Sinaloa, apart from Mazatlan, the government plans to boost tourism throughout the state. “We have been working with the municipalities, in coordination with the state plan for the development of sectoral programs,” he commented. He also commented that they are working together with a proposal from the federal government to promote magical centers. “Just as in the city of Culiacán you have the Paseo del Ángel, and other destinations here within the same city, promote them to trigger tourism in each of the regions,” he explained. Similarly, he said that work is being done to generate a consistent tourist offer, in which the attractions of the municipalities and the gastronomic offer are exploited. “A lot of tourism circulates and visits more consistently when there...

  The federal and Baja California governments plan to “dust off” the Punta Colonet project that the Fox and Calderón PAN administrations failed to carry out: a megaport with the capacity to receive more than two million containers a year and that would compete with the saturated Long Beach and Los Angeles piers. The project has the endorsement of President López Obrador and work is already under way to create the company that will take charge of the operation. 16 years after the suspension of what would be the fourth most important cabotage port in the world and one of the most cherished plans by the PAN governments, the Punta Colonet project re-emerges, now hand in hand with the Morena administration. In addition, the actors that almost two decades ago bid hard to keep the port: Hutchinson Port Holding, a Chinese company promoted by the then governor of the entity, Eugenio Elorduy Walther, as well as the former governor, Ernesto Ruffo Appel. The concession is already agreed upon a...

   POST 6- NEWS  The news talks about the intention of officials in Baja California about building a large, desalination plant in a beach town near Tijuana. In 2016, state officials finalized a plan only to shelve it four years later, citing its high cost. The energy-intensive technology works by removing impurities from seawater. Roberto Salmón also helped to oversee U.S.-Mexico treaties on borders and rivers as Mexico’s representative to the International Boundary and Water Commission between 2009 and 2020. He said a desalination plant would help Tijuana considerably. “But discussions had been going on ever since I came into the commission,” Salmón said, “and there is no plant yet.” A single aqueduct that crosses the state, including a rugged 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) mountain pass, brings Colorado River water into Tijuana. “It’s a one-source city,” Salmón said. Officials and companies have similarly talked about using treated recycled wastewater to boost the city’s wat...

  For the second consecutive day, classes at all educational levels, both public and private in Sinaloa, will remain suspended in the eighteen municipalities of the state, due to the continuous rains generated by hurricane "Kay", category one, which is strengthening and advancing across the pacific The Secretary of Public Education and Culture of the State issued a new notice of suspension of face-to-face classes on the recommendation of the State Institute of Civil Protection of the state that follows up on the evolution of the natural phenomenon. Early this Tuesday, the rains intensified in the south of the state due to the natural phenomenon, which is why it is reported that the Jabalíes stream, which crosses a large urban sector, threatens to overflow, for which city hall staff, maintains constant vigilance. In the state capital, since the night before, there have been isolated rains, without major consequences, but it is expected that they will intensify during the morni...

   POST 5- NEWS  The piece of news talks about the Nuevo Vallarta International Airport deciding to eliminate the Multiple Migratory Format (FMM) as a part of a strategy implemented by the National Migration Institute (INM), which will benefit all international tourists reducing the time of entry, avoiding a procedure that occupied considerable time for visitors from other countries. According to the Nuevo Vallarta Tourism Trust, with this program, tourists arriving in Vallarta will no longer have to present this printed or digital format; managing to stamp their passports through a more agile process, to pass the immigration filter in just 10 minutes on average; however, gradually the times will decrease. It is worth mentioning that Nuevo Vallarta has received an average of 1,106,550 passengers from international markets so far this year. This format collects the data of each person who enters Mexican territory, such as their full name, passport number, address where the...

The sharp rise in fentanyl distribution in this northwestern city, where it is estimated to have skyrocketed this year by 333 percent in the tourist zone, has put authorities on alert on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. That alarming figure is based on the confiscation of 269 kilograms (590 pounds) of that potent opioid in the year’s first eight months by the northwestern state of Baja California’s Public Security Secretariat. Most of those seizures occurred in the Zona Norte neighborhood, which is located just one kilometer from the San Ysidro Port of Entry - the largest land border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego, California - and thus a place where tourist and migrant flows are concentrated. The officials said that increase in fentanyl distribution and consumption has occurred because the per-dose distribution cost is much lower - just 50 pesos ($2.50) - compared to other substances. Also, they added that the effect that synthetic drug produces in people is “dou...

  Lithium for Mexico, whose acronym is LitioMx, is the name of the decentralized body that was proposed in the reform of the Mining Law sent by López Obrador to the Congress of the Union and approved at the end of April of this year. Governor Alfonso Durazo was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to coordinate the newly created company that will be installed in the state of Sonora. In addition, the state government will have a share within the organization that will be dedicated to the exploration, exploitation, benefit and use of lithium located in national territory. During the morning conference, the president affirmed that, hand in hand with the governor of Sonora, Alfonso Durazo, a plan is being worked on so that the state can generate renewable and clean energy. “The aim is to promote the automotive industry in Sonora, take advantage of what is already available. The generation plant with solar energy has already started and it will be the largest plant in Lati...