The institution offers financial support to the state to execute projects for its development.
In a meeting with Governor Joaquín Díaz Mena, Mark Thomas, World Bank Country Director for Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela, recognized that Yucatan is a strategic ally and a source of regional growth in the southeast of the country.
From the Portrait Room of the Government Palace, the director highlighted that Yucatan has great potential, and the bank could provide financial support to a set of investment activities in the state.
Before Juan González Flores, country manager of International Finance Corporation Mexico, Díaz Mena presented the competitive advantages of Yucatan, as well as the large strategic projects that seek to boost the state’s economy and generate more well-being for the Yucatecans. He detailed that in Yucatan they are working on the expansion of the Deepwater Port of Progreso; the project to bring the Maya Train to Progreso, as well as the Well-Being Poles with natural gas.
“We have the promotion of clean energy; we promote wind energy projects, photovoltaic energy, which can complement what the combined cycle plants will be producing in electricity for Yucatan,” he added.
Accompanied by the head of the Secretariat of Economy and Labor (SETY), Ermilo Barrera Novelo and the general coordinator of Advisors, Dafne López Martínez, the governor also pointed out that five new universities will soon be built in the state; he spoke of the “Allies for Life” strategy, which through more than 100 programs and government actions seeks to bring well-being to every corner of Yucatan, to maintain security and strengthen the social fabric, so that Yucatan continues to be a place of peace and tranquility.
Finally, Díaz Mena spoke of agriculture as a priority for his government, which sought to generate better employment opportunities with productive projects such as tilapia production, citrus farming in the south, livestock farming in the east, but creating a virtuous circle, helping the producer with their inputs, but also with marketing strategies.
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