AMLO and John Kerry will hold a closed-door dialogue on the Sonora Plan for renewable energies and the use of lithium

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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that in his meeting with John Kerry, special envoy for the Climate of the United States, in Hermosillo, Sonora, they will talk behind closed doors about the Sonora Plan for renewable energies and the use of lithium for automotive energy.

 "There will be a meeting on Friday, in Hermosillo, in the afternoon we will make an evaluation of what it has to do with the electric parks, but also the Sonora Plan, which includes batteries and the automotive plan."

At a press conference, the Chief of the Federal Executive explained that the meeting will be behind closed doors at the Government Palace of Sonora "because we are going to deal with issues that require care, because they are issues that are moving forward."

President López Obrador said that the visit to the Puerto Peñasco solar plant was ruled out for “logistics” reasons.

At the end of the meeting with the envoy of the administration of President Joe Biden, the President indicated that there will be a press conference, which will be headed by Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and then he will continue his tour of the North of the country.

On Saturday, the President will have a meeting with the Yaqui peoples of Sonora, in which the restitution document for 30,000 hectares of their territory will be delivered, and later in Navojoa the health plan for the state will be put in place and on Sunday he will put into The health plan for Sinaloa is underway.

Information from: El Universal


PERSONAL OPINION

This news is a clear example of how growing globalization directly affects the decisions of countries.  Even though the Sonora Project is an idea proposed and carried out by the Mexican government and that will mainly benefit the population of this territory, there are other States that are interested in being involved.  Especially in this case, I think that the United States is a country with which Mexico is closely involved, it even has an important agreement such as the T-MEC, so its decisions, no matter how much it is a national project, they must be attached to the considerations that maintain this relationship with the United States.


Now, I believe that this project has a lot of potential to make the country grow economically and especially the state of Sonora, it is a way to promote innovation, bet on renewable energies, generate jobs and I think it can be a great bet for the future.  I have even seen some notes that claim that this could lead to the creation of clusters in the area.  In the last paragraphs of the news, they point out that there will be compensation for the population and I believe that it is important that with all the benefits that this project can bring, there is a large population that could be affected by the seizure of territory or the industrialization and these people must be compensated.


This talk will be behind closed doors, so it is clear that the issues to be discussed are delicate and the way in which the negotiation will turn out will hopefully be to the benefit of both countries.


Mariana Chávez

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