Borderplex Alliance: Felipe Calderon to handle funding alternatives in border manufacturing given tensions in U.S.-China commerce
On this April 9, 2015, file picture, Mexico’s former President Felipe Calderon speaks at a joint press convention at some point earlier than the Summit of the Americas in Panama Metropolis, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. (AP Photograph/Arnulfo Franco, File)
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A former president of Mexico would be the keynote speaker on the Borderplex Alliance’s 2021 U.S.-Mexico Border Summit subsequent month.
Felipe Calderon Hinojosa will handle commerce points, resembling how Mexico can profit from U.S. commerce tensions with China and the way attracting European funding may be pivotal for border companies, in line with the group.
The summit begins at 7:30 a.m. Nov. 4 on the Plaza Resort Pioneer Park, 106 W. Mills Ave. in El Paso. Calderon’s midday speech is at a collections room on the Resort Paso del Norte throughout the road. You may click here for particulars on attending the summit.
Calderon was president of Mexico from 2006-2012. His tenure was controversial: some credit score him with rising the economic system and selling environmental safety and cooperation; others bear in mind him for an aggressive drug warfare that backfired.
“He applied insurance policies that catapulted Mexico into a strong participant within the international economic system. Since leaving his submit, he has centered his management and a spotlight on the financial advantages of performing on local weather change and has positioned himself as a number one voice on this international difficulty,” the nonprofit, non-partisan Borderplex Alliance mentioned.
However in an Oct. 31, 2012 article printed by the Brookings Establishment, former Mexican diplomat Andres Rozental torched Calderon for not making substantial structural adjustments to the economic system and failing to rein in violence.
“Not solely is the excessive degree of deaths attributed to the warfare on cartels and different criminals ample proof that violence continues to be very a lot the order of the day, however the stream of medication into the USA in addition to the wave of assault rifles and different arms coming into Mexico proceed comparatively unabated,” Rozental wrote.
Some 63,000 people died in drug-related violence through the Calderon administration, together with 1,000 Mexican troopers and law enforcement officials, in line with the Mexico Metropolis nonprofit Safety, Justice and Peace.
