Economic Geography

  POST 13- NEWS  The news was about the "Puerto Nayarit Corredor del Norte" will be placed on December 9, in a protocol act headed by the state governor, Miguel Ángel Navarro, an infrastructure development, this new port would generate among its peers on the Mexican Pacific side a complement and an option for the relief of operations in the port of Manzanillo, which in recent months has suffered from logistical collapses. Regarding the commercial opportunities that are observed, Ocampo López considered that the port would represent an entry and exit option for the technology industry that has settled in the state of Jalisco, in addition to the agri-food sector. Likewise, he invited logistics service companies to visit the state and learn about future opportunities that will arise with the development of the port. https://t21.com.mx/maritimo/2022/11/11/puerto-nayarit-iniciaria-su-construccion-diciembre My opinion: In my opinion, commercial ports are key infrastructures for the...

The Secretary of Health of Nayarit, Francisco Munguía Perez, shared with the media that the cases of monkeypox in the entity are rising substantially" which is why the state already occupies the ninth place nationwide with 20 positive cases, in proportion to its total population. He indicated that Bahía de Banderas is the most affected municipality, due to its proximity to Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, since in the neighboring town the number of cases is considerable and the labor flow facilitates the transmission of the disease. He explained that to date 10 positive cases are registered and active, patients who comply with the protocol and isolation health regulations, as well as with clinical follow-up for a period of three weeks. He also reported that they are still awaiting the results of a pending case to be confirmed or ruled out by the Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (InDRE). He commented that at the moment there are no deaths in Nayarit due to monkeypox, b...

  Some groups pointed out that the state and municipal governments have ignored the Alert on Gender Violence against Women. More than five years have passed since the Gender Violence Alert against Women (AVGM) was decreed in Sinaloa, however, the state and municipal articulation has not been enough because there are more omissions in its compliance. Rocío Arely Avendaño Gálvez, president of the Sinaloan Active Women's Collective (C'MAS) pointed out: "With concern we see that the cases of femicide are increasing. We have figures that are sometimes down, sometimes up; however, the cruelty, the feat and the context converge so that each case is pitiful," she declared. Similarly, she commented that of the 20 murders of women that have been registered so far this year, only 15 are being investigated as femicide. This despite the fact that every death of a woman, through violence, is femicide until proven otherwise. Personal opinion It is wtih great anger and frustation tha...

  Through the modernization of the border ports in the entity and the cooperation between Mexico and the United States, the binational commercial exchange will be more efficient, in which Sonora will have a stellar participation as a generator of clean energy, highlighted Governor Alfonso Durazo Montaño. . Within the framework of the supervision of the border port of San Luis Río Colorado, the state president stressed that the global geopolitical context will allow the relocation of investments, a phenomenon with which the state will benefit from having a solid industry and trained human capital. and recognized worldwide. Ken Salazar, ambassador of the United States in Mexico, highlighted the cooperation of the Mexican nation and, especially, the state of Sonora in terms of green energy generation, through the implementation of the Sonora Sustainable Energy Plan promoted by Governor Alfonso Durazo Montaño and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In the presence of Santos González...

  The criminal incidence skyrocketed in Nayarit in the first six months of the year, going from 2,421 alleged crimes registered between January and June of last year, to 3,553 in the same period of 2022, which is equivalent to an increase of 46.8 %. The report made by IPS based on reports from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System and the National Survey of Urban Security of the Inegi, shows that in this way Nayarit became the second federal entity where the incidence of crime grew the most; Coahuila, which is in third place, registered an increase of 23.5, followed by Hidalgo. At the national level, the average growth in crime incidence is 6%, which means that Nayarit, an entity governed by Miguel Ángel Navarro Quinteto, had almost seven times more. Likewise, Nayarit is found in the entities that grew 25% in terms of vehicle theft and extortion grew 28.6% according to data from the Nayarit Prosecutor's Office. Information from:  Excélsior Digital PE...

  POST 12- NEWS  The news was about the “Analysis of the Incidence of the Behavior of Crime Rates”, among which various topics specifically in the city of Baja California stood out. Tijuana. One of the most shocking points was that of kidnappings since compared to the year 2019, crimes increased by 60% during 2022. According to the records of the Attorney General of the State of Baja California (FGEBC), in what so far this year there have been 8 kidnappings. Unlike in 2020, this same question had a considerable increase of 14%. Another shocking fact was that of homicides, which have unimaginable figures, so far this year there have been a total of 3,629 homicides in the city; within the comparisons compared to 2012 a huge increase of 442% is shown; with 2013 a difference of 272% is seen; with 2014 a comparison of 296% can be observed; in 2015 this number of homicides represents a 204% increase; while in 2016 this same issue increased by 138%. https://bajacaliforniapost.com/202...

   POST 11- NEWS  The news is about the investments in Mazatlán belonging to foreigners by 25 or 30 percent, where sales for vacation rentals stand out, said Roberto Carlos Arellano Osorio. The president of the Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals of Mazatlán stated that from November to March many Americans and Canadians spend an important time in Mazatlán, in which the real estate market moves a lot. He explained that on the subject of investment, Mazatlan is between 8th and 10th place at the national level. There is an estimated figure of 3,500 to 5,000 in inventories. Mazatlan needs to improve its infrastructure in order to attract more real estate investment. Arellano Osorio commented that it is necessary to improve the roads, as well as the water and drainage services in the destination in order to cover the demand that is generated, for this reason there will be a rapprochement with both the state government and the federal government. https://themazatl...

  Exceptional, this is how hoteliers describe the high season of tourism in Los Cabos. According to figures provided by the Los Cabos Hotel Association (AHCL), October will register an average occupancy of 70%. During the celebration of Bisbee’s Black and Blue, which will take place from October 26 to 29, it is estimated that the hotel occupancy of the destination will reach 72%. Lilzi Orcí, representative of the hotel sector in Los Cabos, explained that hotel occupancy was exceeded by more than 10 percentage points; comparing what was achieved during 2019, this thanks to tourist and sporting events such as the Bisbee’s tournament. Entrepreneurs maintain high expectations that it can still increase the volume of tourist arrivals thanks to the synergy that Bisbee’s is causing in the destination. In a study carried out by the Bisbee’s tournament and the Fund for the Protection of Marine Resources ( Fonmar ), they estimate that each tourist who visits Los Cabos to practice sport fishi...

  After the expropriations of agricultural land carried out by the federal government in 1976, more than 90 percent of 320,000 productive hectares in southern Sonora are leased by large consortiums to produce grains and vegetables such as wheat, corn, dwarf, sesame and pumpkin. The monthly income per hectare in this area ranges between 12 and 14 thousand pesos. This practice favors smaller producers, who have preferred to lease their plots rather than invest large amounts in inputs for planting, given the lack of credit and development for the countryside. “It is very risky, because nobody is encouraged, supplies have become much more expensive, there is nowhere to turn to have credits and all this exposes them, not because they do not want to do it, but it is the lack of support for the field”, stressed the leader ejidal Regarding the control of water by the agricultural consortiums, the ejido leader pointed out that it is the responsibility of the Comisión Nacional del Agua (Cona...

  The regularization of foreign vehicles in Sinaloa, whose goal was 50 thousand vehicles, has already been exceeded in the state, informed the Secretary General of the Government, Enrique Inzunza Cázarez. “Originally, a figure of 50,000 vehicles was planned to be regularized, this figure has already been reached and exceeded. As of October 21, there are 50,261 regularized and registered vehicles as part of this process. This has meant a collection of 87.9 million pesos, for what concerns the state and 125.6 million pesos collected for what concerns the federal ”, specified the Secretary-General. Governor Rocha Moya pointed out that this week the agreement will be signed with the Federal Government so that the resource collected in this area can be applied for public works in the 18 municipalities of the state, which registers an advance of 24 works projects registered until the moment, equivalent to an investment of 74 million pesos. Personal opinion These kind of actions are so mu...

  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 Presid...

   POST 10- NEWS  The news is about the Biden administration revamping security technology in the U.S.-Mexico (Tijuana) border this year. The Mexican government was preparing to purchase hundreds of millions of dollars of Chinese scanning equipment for its own checkpoints. U.S. officials worried that the scanners, which Mexico had begun to purchase from Beijing-based Nuctech, would give China access to troves of information about goods entering the United States. The company, which manufactures equipment to screen luggage and cargo, has strong ties to China’s communist government. Mexican officials say they are aware of the U.S. unease and see value in using equipment that is compatible with the technology used in the United States, but they are following their own country’s procurement procedures. The United States has warned for years that China could use the security and telecommunications equipment produced by its companies to gather information from the United States...

  The state of Baja California ranks first nationally in cost of insecurity, indicates the National Survey of Victimization of Companies 2022. The document indicates that companies spent 95,631 pesos in 2021 on protection measures and losses as a result of crime. The cost at the state level exceeds the cost registered in Mexico City, with 95 thousand 128 pesos and that of Guanajuato of 90 thousand 088 pesos. The main crime committed in Baja California last year was extortion, which registered an expansion in the country, going from 13 states in 2019 to 21 in 2021. Last year, Baja California registered a criminal incidence rate for acts of corruption of 723 cases for every 10,000 economic units. In this sense, Baja California ranked fifth nationally, behind Mexico City, Quintana Roo, Guanajuato and Oaxaca. Theft or assault of goods or money is the second most committed crime in Baja California after extortion. Something positive that the state registered was the change in the affect...

   POST 9- NEWS  The news is that SANDAG has announced that it is making progress on a proposal that will allow the Blue Line trolley to be extended approximately one mile to Tijuana. In other words, it will be a cross-border tram and it will also be the first of its kind in the country, something that is intended to be achieved with the support of partners that the United States has in Mexico, said Antoinette Meier, senior director of Regional Planning at SANDAG. According to what was reported, waiting times could be as little as 10 to 15 minutes, however, everything would indicate that tram users would have to go through a pre-selection process similar to that of the CBX border crossing. SANDAG’s Senior Director of Regional Planning stated that the next step will be to enter into agreements for the association and then move to the design stage and culminate in the development stage. This project would join that of the Otay II Garita, an intelligent garita that also has ...

  A potentially dangerous category 2 hurricane called Orlene is forming south of Los Cabos, with its landfall expected on the coasts of Sinaloa.  The National Water Commission has reported amidst the 2022 hurricane season that tropical storm Orlene is slowly emerging south of Baja California Sur and will be rated category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, according to the current forecast. The tropical storm is currently brewing around 442 kilometers southwest of Punta San Telmo, Michoacán, with maximum winds of between 75 km/h and 95 km/h.  Personal opinion As fortunately this weather inconvinient has been noticed in advance, people can be warned by authorities so they can suffer the less not only talking about economy but for their own security. On the other hand, governments should have a protocol to follow since these type phenomens take place frecuently and also, they must have some emergency budget so the population can be resguarded and the economy wouldn´t be that mu...

During the supervision and evaluation meeting of the Representative Office in Baja California, held at the Technological Institute of Tijuana, the commissioner of the National Migration Institute (INM), Francisco Garduño Yáñez, was informed that between January and September 2022, that agency rescued 31 thousand 907 foreign migrants, while in the same period of the previous year there were 25 thousand 155 people. At the meeting it was reported that these irregular migrants come mainly from Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Peru, Guatemala, El Salvador, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Russia. In addition, the event explained that, as part of the actions to guarantee safe, orderly and regular migration with full respect for human rights, 127 verification requests were made in hotels where 469 foreigners were rescued. The body of the Ministry of the Interior highlighted that Baja California is one of the main points of entry into the country, as it registered until August 2022 a migratory flow o...

  In a single day, Hermosillo went from 40 degrees to a windy afternoon with rain and hail. Chaos was generated in Hermosillo after unexpected rain that came accompanied by strong gusts of wind and hail in some sectors of the city In addition to the significant accumulation of water in busy avenues, traffic lights, poles, transformers, and trees were also reported to fall, for which authorities informed the population to avoid going out into the street. The storm began at 7:30 p.m. with wind gusts of up to 93 km/h, as confirmed by the Civil Protection Coordination in Sonora. The state agency indicated that reports on more damages were addressed and that there were accumulations of water up to 46.8 mm. The Hermosillo Police and the State Police supported the transfer of people to safer areas, as well as the rescue of others who were stranded in the flooded streets of the state capital of Sonora. Personal opinion Many of inconvencies caused by the climate changes are not something pr...

  POST 8- NEWS  The news is that the mayor of Mazatlán, Luis Guillermo Benitez Torres, gave his opinion on different issues that occurred in Mazatlán, one of them the 2023 Expenditure Budget. He pointed out that by 2023 his administration will allocate a larger budget in search of improving the port campuses, and also stated that they will team up with the State Government, through the Sinaloa Institute of Educational Physical Infrastructure (ISIFE).  The municipal president expressed that 30 million pesos were allocated last year to support Mazatlan schools and they are looking to increase it for fiscal year 2023. The mayor said that when a city is transformed and offers certainty to investors, Private Investment arrives, since during the first three years of his administration 42 billion pesos were achieved, being the largest in Sinaloa. My opinion: I believe that it is undeniable that education contributes to the economic growth of the regions. Well-prepared profession...

  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...