Nuevo Laredo

And the question that we tend to always ask is like, yes, but like how? and where, right? And so I feel like Laredo comes in and offers a very wide opportunity for people to come in to live in either side of the border, you know, to make an income in dollars and be able to spend in pesos, which is something that I don't know if you've gotten the chance to experience if you've ever traveled to Mexico, but it's wonderful.

I don't know if you ever knew this, but there's no other border cities in the entire world that there's a bigger gap between incomes between laredo and nuevo laredo and so it's it's uh a blessing right to have the opportunity to live in this side of the border and to be able to spend over there and to be able to cross and and you know uh you know provide it for our families or have fun out there you know and uh have you have you visited mexico recently by chance

Not recently.

I was I was in Mexico City a few years ago.

Angel Trevino Morales of the Las Zetas Cartel, 17 states, et cetera, formed by members of the Mexican elite army.

July 15th, Mexican Marines outside of Nuevo Laredo $2 million in cash, they found.

$2 million in cash.

That's chump change to these people.

She lost her father.

And somehow she put her, here's a Latino woman right on the border of Nuevo Laredo and Laredo.

she put herself through college, San Marcos, Texas, how she did it with no money.

And she only had one grandson and that was me.

Outside and high, ball two, two and one now on Ruben Amaro.

Ruben Amaro hails from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

He's 26 years old.

He's been playing ball for eight years.

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Laredo, Nuevo Laredo, and some in Canada and overseas.

But the systems hadn't caught up, and every time they'd change a coupon with scanning and barcodes, it was something different, and we hadn't kept up.

We...

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AMLO's successor, President Claudia Sheinbaum, also of the Morena Party, has since continued the tradition of focusing on transport, projecting more train lines such as Mexico City, Querétaro, Guadalajara, Mazatlán, Nogales, Mexico City, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Saltillo, Nuevo Laredo, and Mexico City, Pachuca, as part of the signature Plan de Mexico.

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When it comes to infrastructural investment, foreign direct investment should always be a consideration.

It was owned by Kansas City Southern, which is part of the south of the United States, central United States, south United States in Texas and Louisiana, and then Mexico as a country in the northeast part of Mexico City.

We have over 32,000 kilometers of tracks actually a little bit more of what the whole country Mexico has Counting us but these 32,000 kilometers of track is connecting port We serve over 12 ports in the North America region We are serving in mexico uh two main borders one of them is nuevo laredo the most important border for freight and also brownsville matamoros which is the other one but also we serve in the mexico park the Pacific area through the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, and in the Gulf of Mexico, we serve Tampico Altamira plus Veracruz in the Gulf of Mexico.

We do interchange in average through these 4,000 kilometers of track that we have here in Mexico, almost 32 trains per day.

which is around 60 000 tons metric tons that is in each train and that can give you a big picture of what is the volume that we are moving we are offering the sectors as an auto sector grain sector industrial sector for for for sure and we are moving along containers and we are exploring now through this uh merger that we have only three years in this new merger, refrigerated products, which is frozen products that we are moving from U.S. into Mexico and now from Mexico to the U.S. market that we started just a year ago.

We need to understand the political side of this.

But we do believe that it's going to be solving these issues soon.

Talking about customs, you recently invested, I think, $100 million or so in Nuevo Laredo in a new bridge there.

How would you characterize the customs now under Trump and under tariffs between the U.S. and Mexico? Is there anything that can be done specifically that is practical, that could make things a bit more efficient after you made such a large sort of capital investment?

We're in Mexicali, Mexico twice.

Nuevo Laredo, Mexico once.

So I'm just calling November Mexico month for

me.

The maquiladoras and the appliances, medical devices, everything that needs to cross the border very fast should be on all the border.

We have Tijuana, we have Mexicali, we have Ciudad Juarez, we have also Reynosa, and on the other side of the country we have Brownsville, well, Matamoros, no? So we have a very big border, and Actually, Laredo and Nuevo Laredo is very important border crossing.

I understand that it's the most important border crossing, well, port of entry to the United States, more than any airport, more than any other port.

Just Laredo, what crosses there every day, it's more than any other port or airport in the United States.