So, good morning. Good morning to everyone. How are you? Well, today with us is Laura Velázquez, who will tell us very briefly about the drill that will take place next Saturday or Sunday. Saturday. Yes, Saturday. Next Saturday. And today we have the report from the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport, Ivanobras. It is a somewhat extensive presentation of all the highways and roads we are building with public investment and also what we call mixed investment, which is without there being a highway concession, using private resources or private funds that allow the highway to be developed, but it is always a public highway. The objective is investment mechanisms that were used since President López Obrador and that we are expanding to guarantee that there are roads, that there is employment, that there is public works, that there is development. Well, those are the two topics of today and, as always, on Thursdays, Noemí with Women in History. Well, let's go very briefly, Laura, very quickly.
Thank you very much. With your permission, Madam President. Good day to everyone. Carrying out the formal instruction that the President of Mexico gave us to carry out at least two national drills a year. I inform all of you that next Saturday, September 19, at 12 noon, the second national drill will be carried out, that is, we will participate in all 32 federal entities. Let's begin, please, with the presentation. Next Saturday, September 19, we will begin with the flag honors at half-mast, remembering those affected and deceased by the earthquakes of 1985 and 2017. At exactly 7:19 in the morning, the flag raising will be carried out, led by the President of Mexico, accompanied by the Secretaries of the Interior, Defense, Navy, Security, the National Guard, the Head of Government of Mexico City, and myself. Next slide, please. Immediately after carrying out the national drill, Saturday, September 19, at 12 noon, the National Emergency Committee will be installed, headed by the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Master Mar García Harfush. This is actually a very important moment for the government because, in addition to giving general information on how the drill was carried out throughout the country, all the governors and governoresses of the country will be connected and linked, giving a report on the drill. But likewise, the federal government will make known to the people of Mexico all the preparation we have carried out over these years to prepare for an eventual emergency, the state of readiness, and all the work carried out by this federation. Now, next Saturday, September 19, at 12 noon, it will be carried out throughout the country. Allow me to keep insisting on this, throughout the country. Saturday, September 19, at 12 noon, Mexico City time, we will carry out this citizen exercise that allows us to measure all our response capacity, from a family plan that we will already be developing at this moment. It should be noted that it will be on a Saturday, for the first time it will be on a Saturday, and this will allow the vast majority of Mexicans to participate from their homes, which will be a very important exercise, a family plan to determine what the responsibility of each of the family members is. Finally, remember that the alert will sound via cell phone. There are more than 80 million cell phones. You know that by instruction of the President of Mexico, the alerting via cell phone is a reality in our country. We are the third country in the American continent with this alerting via cell phone, and all the phones in the Mexican Republic will ring at 12 noon, Mexico City time. Likewise, the seismic alert will sound through 23,000 loudspeakers that are distributed mainly in the states bordering the Pacific and towards the center of the country. That would be all, Madam President. I'll just leave you with one last map. The hypothesis we have worked on throughout the country is on four parts: priority roads, bridges and road distributors, highways and artisanal roads. This time we are not bringing conservation, the mega-bachaton, that will come later. In priority roads, in total during the administration, 3,161 km will be built. The investment will be 154,000 million. To date, we have 11 roads: two completed, eight in process, and one to begin. Of the completed ones, 407 km, which is 13%. In execution, we have 1,113 km, 35%. To begin in 2026, which is the only axis we are missing, it is 2%, it is Ciudad Valles Tampico. And from 2027 to 2029 we will be building the 1,637 km, that is, an additional 52%. Next. Now I will go into the description one by one. Completed, and these we call continuity works, we have the Ignacio Tayoltita. Here the reduction in time from what was practically a dirt road saved 8 and a half hours on the trip, that is, from 10 hours we went to 1 hour 30. It connects the states of Sinaloa with Durango. There are 18 structures, 14 bridges, three viaducts, and we had to build several of these structures, finish them. And well, here are some images of the trip and the route. It has been in operation since August of this year. Next. And in Hidalgo, this is part of the axis that goes from Pachuca to Tampico. We had to complete Real del Monte-Huasca, we had to complete some tunnels, some slopes, and here the time reduction is 40 minutes. As I said, this is important as an axis from Pachuca to Tampico. Images of the trips and the operation. It was finished in March 2025, it started in 2022. Next. These were the continuity ones. Now, works that we had to complete and start during this administration is the Babispe-Nuevo Casas Grandes highway, which connects the states of Sonora and Chihuahua. Before, this red line marks the route the population took. It was 5 and a half hours and now the trip is made in an hour and a half. Next. Here are images of before, of the conditions it was in. They were also dirt roads and in some cases there was no passage. And today this was built in a short period, it was on the order of 10 months, it is 134 km, an investment of 180,000,000 between March 2025 and January 2026. It was completed. Next. In process, one of the highways we have is the one that goes from Guaymas to Chihuahua. This is very important, the connection of this port, and this will allow us to go north from Chihuahua. In 2025, 10 km were built with the support of the Ministry of the Navy, and this 2026 we will be building 74 km. These are images of the works we have near seven fronts that are being worked on. The time savings will be 2 hours. Next. Regarding the Tierra y Libertad circuit in the state of Morelos, this is a very important circuit in terms of its connectivity. In it, we also built a bridge here in Jojutla, and this connects to the Siglo XXI that comes from Puebla to Morelos and connects with the Autopista del Sol. So this bridge becomes important in the connection, and additionally we gave conservation to all the emergency exit roads of the volcano. The time savings, well, 40 minutes. There was conservation on most of the circuit and there were some adjustments and modernizations regarding some curves. The next one in process is also the priority road of Cuautla-Acapulco. Here it passes through the states of Morelos, Puebla and Guerrero. It is 253 km. In green we have completed sections. Actually, there is a green section here that is from Acatlán de Osorio to the Palomas junction, which was done last year, and everything in orange and ochre color is in process. It is 54 km for this year, we have 42% progress and one hour will be saved on the trip. We are improving the condition, it is being widened to what we call section A2, which is 12 m wide with two lanes, but with shoulders that allow overtaking, plus modernization, that is, the adjustment of curves to make them less pronounced and with that reduce the trips and make it safer. So here you can see part of the works we are carrying out. Next. In San Luis Potosí and Hidalgo we have the San Tamazunchale-Huejutla highway. A while ago I mentioned Real del Monte-Huasca, actually it is completed up to Zacualtipán. This comes from the previous administration. President López Obrador started from Pachuca to Real del Monte, Real del Monte-Huasca, and last year we did from Huejutla to Tamazunchale 27 km, five bridges and almost 10 bridges in total from last year, and this year we will be doing seven bridges and 37 km. We already have 22% progress. Here it is important to mention that all these axes are in the process of bidding for the entire length, and that will begin in 2026 and its execution period is until 2029. Here the time savings is almost one hour and it will be in operation in December 2029, as I mentioned. Next. Ciudad Valles-Tampico is part of the axis I mentioned in Real del Monte-Huasca. It goes from Pachuca to Tampico. This is the only axis we will be starting now in October. It is the only one we are missing to start among the priority roads, and it will be 68 km in total with an investment of 10,000 billion. Next. And this is an expansion to four lanes. This is important to mention. Right now it is a 12, that is, 12 m. We move to Tabasco and Campeche with the Macuspana-Escárcega. This axis connects the peninsula, it comes from Mérida, and it also connects to other highways that come from Quintana Roo, it passes through Campeche, Champotón, and here we are expanding to four lanes from Escárcega to Villahermosa. Well, to Macuspana. From Macuspana to Villahermosa there are already four lanes. From there this axis goes to Coatzacoalcos, enters Veracruz, from Veracruz it goes through Cardel, passes to Tuxpan and arrives at Tampico. And here later Jorge Mendoza of Ivanobras will explain the Gulf Corridor. So this is a very important axis, this connection from the peninsula to the northern border. And last year we did 16 km, this year we are doing 54 km and in total it has 250 km. There are some images of the structures and the embankments. Here we are talking about embankments of more than 8 m in height or 9 m with polystyrene due to the type of terrain. So it is a complex work. Next. We move to Oaxaca and Guerrero. It is the priority road axis from Salina Cruz to Lázaro Cárdenas. Here we are missing Michoacán because the President instructed us not to stay only in Zihuatanejo, but when she toured the work she saw that there were some sections in good condition and we could expand the target to Michoacán. And by the way, from Colima to Lázaro Cárdenas we will also be giving conservation to Highway 200. This is a highway that goes along the entire coast and connects all these states. Last year we did 15 km in Oaxaca and rehabilitated eight bridges in Guerrero. We expanded the section. This year we are doing 22 km in Oaxaca. It already has 26% progress. Here are some images of the bridges that were expanded from two to four lanes, and in the case of this axis or this priority road, the bidding for the complete section to conclude in December 2029 is also already underway. Those bids will be awarded in early October. Next. In the states of Michoacán and the State of Mexico, the priority road from Toluca to Lázaro Cárdenas, well, the Defense is supporting us. Last year 12 km, one bridge and three junctions were built, and this year we are going for 47 km, 21 in the State of Mexico and 26 in the state of Guerrero. We have 7% progress. There are also important cuts and relevant structures here. Next. In Chiapas, the Palenque-Ocosingo highway, which is a project promoted by the state government. They already started with a section. We are currently building from Palenque to Agua Azul. It is 14 km, three tunnels, four viaducts, three bridges and eight structures for lower vehicular crossings. This is what we are doing. The state already started with some kilometers from Palenque to the junction point. All the tunnels, all the elevated viaducts will be built by SIC. Here a few days ago the President in her reports in the states mentioned 15 simultaneous fronts, we are going to reach 22. Right now we already have the 15 fronts working. Next. Ah, well, sorry, this is very important because it connects the entire Sierra Madre of the state of Chiapas. So for populations that did not have that connectivity, if we go back to the previous map, it is important to mention how they can move in this area. The time savings will be almost 60 minutes and we will reach Ocosingo. Next. Baja California Sur and Baja California. Here we have all the intervention on the Transpeninsular. Last year 72 km were done. This year we are going to address 773 km of the 845 it has, and we should have addressed almost 70%, between 65 and 70% of the Transpeninsular this year. Here are some images of the works being carried out. Next. And now I move on to bridges and distributors. In this case, the 2025-2030 investment will be 25,000 million. It is 47.6 km in length. It is a little less than the Interior Circuit, only bridges and distributors, which are at these points on the trunk axes, which are the axes that move most of the cargo and people in the country. To date, we have 24 bridges, 10 completed, 11 in process, one to start this year and two in 2027. We have 52% progress on those already in process. Next. I start with Los Cabos in Baja California Sur, the Glorieta de las Mujeres Libres. Here you see the very important connection that is made from the airport and from Highway 1 that goes along the entire peninsula. Next. Here are images of before, we see how it was a level intersection that could take more than an hour to cross during peak hours, and today the reduction is more than 40 minutes. This underpass was built, well, a grade-separated crossing, and the side roads were rebuilt, and the roundabout was also modernized. Here it was put into operation in May 2026, it started in May 2025. Next. Regarding Mazatlán, Sinaloa, we also have an important bridge that Highway 15 crosses, which comes from Culiacán and continues and passes through Mazatlán. It was an important conflict point. It represents almost 40 minutes of savings in its crossing. It is a four-lane bridge. Here we see images of the previous condition. As you can see, it was an urban crossing, and for what we call long itineraries, that is, for all these trips that go along the coast and move cargo especially and that pass through urban areas, this comes to solve it for them. It is a four-lane bridge, 811 m long, with an investment of 430,000,000 pesos, and it was built between August and February, August 2025, February 2026. I make these references because the reduction in times is important and also the reduction in costs. Next. We go to Jojutla, Morelos. I mentioned it within the Tierra y Libertad circuit. This bridge here shows more clearly Highway Siglo XXI that goes from Atlisco to the Autopista del Sol, passes through Jantetelco and crosses through Jojutla. And this bridge helps with that crossing. It was a one-lane bridge. Next. There you can see the crossing and it was completely dismantled. They are now designed for rainfall return periods of 1,000 years. They are given greater height and greater section. Next. The bridge that is in process in the state of Morelos for the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos. Currently to get there you either cross through the entire city or you have to make a 5 km return on the highway. The bridge already has 33% progress and consists of building an arm coming off the highway and passing to the other side of the road. So this will be completed in December 2029, 2026, the date is wrong there, and it started in May 2026. Next. Well, here as you can see, we already have important progress on foundations. Next. Bridges in the municipalities of Colima and Coquimatlán. Here in Colima we have eight bridges, but due to the extent I am marking them by regions. This is the city of Colima. Two bridges were completed on its ring road, the Arco Norte and Arco Sur. Arco Norte Celsa Virgen Pérez, Arco Sur Epitacia Zamora Teodoro, and we also have the Chical bridge. Next. Here are views of those highways that cross urban areas and that intersect with streets, which generate important traffic conflicts. This is a bridge of almost 600 m in length. It started in July 2025 and was finished in April 2026. A six-lane bridge. Next. Faster. Ah, I'm going. This, the Arco Sur Epitacia Zamora. It is also a six-lane bridge, 862 m in length. Next. In Coquimatlán, these are bridges that were affected by hurricanes, and this Chical bridge was finished in April 2026, 736 m in length. Next. Regarding the reconstruction of two more bridges, Las Tunas and Las Trancas, 1 km of total length of these two bridges, next. The Las Trancas bridge was finished in April 2026. Next. The Las Tunas bridge started in February of this year and we will be finishing it at the end of this month. It is very close to being done, what is missing are the slabs and some approaches, well, the ramps for going up and down. Next. In bridges in the municipality of Manzanillo, the three have already started. It is the one they call La Flechita, Tapexles, the bridge to access the port, and the Barrio Quinto bridge, next. And very important for the mobility of Manzanillo. This is the main entrance. There you can see images that drilling has already started. Next. Similarly, Barrio Quinto are two bridges that go up and down in this section to allow passage in the lower parts. Next. The Tapexles one that crosses over the tracks. Next. And well, Quintana Roo, the Nichupté bridge. Before, the trips were one hour or 45 minutes and with contingencies it could be even more, and it goes to 10 minutes. The longest bridge we have in Latin America over a lagoon body. It is 11 km and was finished in April 2026. It was also a continuity work. Next. The Cuculcán road distributor, we started it in April of this year, we will be finishing it in December of this year and it has 57% progress. It is going very fast. I think it will finish a little earlier. Next. Nayarit-Jalisco, the bridge called Nervo, it helps provide an additional crossing on the Federaciones road, Avenida Federaciones, and connects the states of Jalisco and Nayarit. The bridge is finished, the state of Jalisco is still working on an interconnection, on a work that corresponds to them, and on the traffic lights, but the bridge is about to open in a few days. Next. The railway overpass in Tepic, which has also started, again a crossing point with the railway in an urban area, and it will be finished in August 2027. I think we will finish it earlier. Next. La Concordia in Chiapas. Here it is important, on the right side you can see the route where people crossed, that is, the routes they have, and to cross this point they had to cross in chalanas or pangas or these barges. Next. The bridge has already been completed, it has been closed, we are already working on dismantling the stay towers and on the wearing surface. So we will be opening it in October of this year, in just a few weeks. Next. The Santana-Chautempan distributor in Tlaxcala, also with important progress, improves the connection Puebla-Atlixco-Puebla and should be finished in a few weeks, it will be ready to open. Next. The bridges to the Middle East. One will be completed in November of this year and the other, which we will have to dismantle, will be completed in October 2027, very important for the ring road connection. Next. In Michoacán, a bridge between Morelia and Pátzcuaro, Santiago Undameo, which will be completed in December 2026. It was a bridge where there were many accidents, a very important crossing. Next. The road distributor of the port of Veracruz, which is also only being worked on on the side roads, important for the connection from Xalapa to Veracruz and for access to the port. As you can see, vehicles are already circulating and you can see the side roads where we continue working on some drainage and gas diversion works. Next. Coatzacoalcos 3, which is about to start, is in the bidding process. The award should be given in October and it will be a bridge of 6.3 km with the junctions and the surrounding roads, but the clear span is 600 m. The next one, and well, a summary of bridges: 402 bridges, if we include everything that is construction, reconstruction, which are 180 bridges, conservation, 86 highways, 51 priority axes, the 17 bridges of the east of the State of Mexico and Capufe which is doing seven. In total there are 107 km of bridges, which is equivalent to more than the entire ring road of Mexico City. 163 completed, we have 41% progress on the program. Next. I start with highways. I will also go quickly. The investment will be 100,000 million from SIC with 802 km and Ivanobras, they will say later, 193,000 million with 1,582 km. And here, well, the Las Varas-Puerto Vallarta, which was completed in September 2025, from Bucerías to Puerto Vallarta. Next. And then we also finished a junction that opened this year, the Autopista L. Gutiérrez-San Cristóbal and the San Cristóbal junction that was just finished, also continuity, they have already been completed. Next. In the images you can see the benefit. The highways in the state of Michoacán, which is part of the Michoacán por la Paz y la Justicia plan, 413 km in total, from Pátzcuaro to Apatzingán, which was inaugurated in March 2026. Next. Sítacuaro-Maravatío, which we must finish by December 2026, has 72% progress. Next. Uruapan-Nueva Italia, which we started and must finish in August 2027, is in process. Next. Nueva Italia-Lázaro Cárdenas started in March 2026, finishes in December 2029. Next. The Uruapan branch, which has also started, must be finished in April 2027. Next. Armería-Manzanillo. We must be delivering the entire section, except the Tepalcatepec bridge, by December 2026. Practically all the lanes are already finished, as can be seen there, and work is being done on some bridges. Next. La Taisapana-Tlaxiaco, which is also in process and we have scheduled for June 2027. Next. The Lagos de Moreno bypass. Next. Images of part of the works. Next. La Mancha-Laguna Verde also for March 2027. Next. This one we have already started. Sonoyta-Puerto Peñasco, where the groundbreaking was done. Right now there are eight work fronts already in process. It is 88 km. Next. San Luis Potosí, La Pitalla, Oriente bypass, also for February 2028 the completion. In process, next. The Mexico-Querétaro alternate route, which will be starting in November of this year and to be finished in April 2030. It is from the Arco Norte to San Juan del Río. Next. Cuautla-Cuernavaca. Also starting in November of this year, it is Highway 45 that connects Zacatecas with Aguascalientes to finish in February 2028. Next. Artisanal roads. The total during the administration will be 4,554 km with 32,000 million. In the previous administration 3,800 km were done, that is, we are going to do 20% more than in the previous administration. Completed we have 8% and in execution is 20%. Next. And the Lázaro Cárdenas program is also very relevant. All the Mixteca Poblana, Oaxaqueña, part of Guerrero, 1,219 km, of those we have finished 85, 70% and in execution 21%. And we must be finishing next year. Next. Here there were more than 80 simultaneous fronts. We are talking about the fact that during the administration the intervention will be almost 11,400 km of roads and highways. To date we have 4,223 in process, 1,800 km completed and the total investment will be 647,000 million pesos, adding the Ivanobras investment. And I yield the floor to Jorge. Next. Thank you.
How are you? Good morning to everyone. Madam President, with your permission. As you can see, there is a lot of work behind the road sector, the construction sector, and I would like to mention some data before entering the presentation. First, we are very happy because in the month of July INEGI published that the construction sector within the industrial part had a growth of 6.7% year on year. Second, I would also like to share why the construction sector is important for this administration and for President Claudia Sheinbaum. The construction sector is 6.5% of the gross domestic product of our country, that is, for every 100 pesos produced in our country, 6.5 pesos come from the construction sector. And something else that is very important, which you probably have not heard, which INEGI also publishes, is that 82% of the materials and services are of Mexican origin. That is, much of this investment has a relevant value chain that goes from the work to all the suppliers plus all the positive externalities that obviously better connectivity, better infrastructure, better efficiencies for both Mexicans and companies. So the effort does not end at the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport. We are also working with Ivanobras and the National Infrastructure Fund on highway projects to continue expanding this network of highways that are so important for our country. I am going to share with you now some slides of some of the projects we have already started and that we are about to start. Let's move on to the next slide, please. We already have 19 projects, of which 14 have already been approved by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport. Five are under analysis. We have a total estimated investment, already including these five new ones, which is why it is a little higher than what the Secretary had, of 213,868 million pesos, and we are expecting around 177,000 direct jobs and around 144,000 indirect jobs to be generated. Now, these highways that the National Infrastructure Fund is generating or building are with mixed investment. During the last months we have been working very closely with the different agencies and with the President to see all the things that had been done in the past and try to eliminate all the bad practices that had been done regarding concessions and projects with the private sector. And we created a figure called mixed investment which is derived into two types of projects: the CMROS, which is construction, maintenance, rehabilitation and operation, and mixed investment through a company with majority state participation. What does this mean for the projects, for Mexicans? First, they are schemes that are not concessions being granted to private parties. The concessions are retained by the State, either in its entirety or with a majority participation, and the rights are not being ceded in their entirety. Second, the private sector does have a participation, but it is also taking risks. The projects have to be self-financing, they cannot have a negative impact on the treasury. We are taking care, as we mentioned a few days ago in the economic package, of the entire budget and every peso by peso where it is being exercised. And these mixed investment projects have to be self-financing, they have to pay for themselves. The highways will be built with the highest standards. Obviously they are being reviewed by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport and we are hiring independent supervisors to ensure that the incentives and the construction being done hand in hand with the private sector is done with these high standards. And finally, on this slide, I would like to mention that the projects we have, these 19, cover 17 states of the Mexican Republic. Next. Some of the relevant projects. We have four priority corridors and this includes several projects. We have the Gulf Corridor and I will be talking about it in more detail, Route 57, the Gulf-Centro Corridor, the Baja California highways, we have two border bridges, Puerto Verde and Nuevo Laredo 4 and 5, and we have already started four projects, of which the three most important are Las Varas-Platanitos, Tulancingo-Necaxa, Reynosa Bypass Connection, and on the right side we can see the map of all the states where these projects are included. Next. The first project started, Las Varas-Platanitos. Las Varas-Platanitos is a very important project because, as we discussed last year, this project is part of the corridor that goes from Guadalajara to Puerto Vallarta, which has a connection to Tepic. We already finished this connection to the Tepic airport last year starting in November and it is already in operation. The new project that started a few months ago and is under construction is Las Varas-Platanitos, which is on the coast of the Riviera Nayarit, and what it will allow is to bring more investment to the tourism sector and obviously continue improving the infrastructure that goes from Puerto Vallarta to Las Varas, Platanitos and Asomadas. Next. We have also started with Tulancingo-Nuevo Necaxa, the first stage. We can see it on the right side. This is part of the corridor we have from Mexico City to Pachuca and all the way to Tuxpan, Veracruz. What we can see is that we have already started with this first stage which will expand a highway that today is an A2, that is, two lanes. We are going to expand it to four lanes and we will continue later with a second stage to reach Nuevo Necaxa, and I will show you how we have already finished the entire corridor to reach Tuxpan. Next. Another project already started that we are about to finish is the Reynosa Bypass Connection. Here what we were missing in the northern part of our country was to connect this highway that was an A4 that went from Reynosa to Reynosa. We are already going to connect it with the bypass and we are already waiting. What it allows is to have a highway where there can be fewer accidents, time can be reduced and there is better connectivity towards the border from Monterrey. Next. We have a very relevant project that connects with highways and roads that are being built by SIC. This is the Gulf Corridor. It is currently in the bidding process. We are waiting to award it in the coming days. This is one of the most relevant projects because it helps us connect the center of the country from Mexico City and also the southeast of our country with the northern zone, and to also remove cargo from Highway 57 and be able to move part of the cargo to this part of the country. And as we can see on the map on the right side, we start from the Tampico west bypass, we go to the Manuel Zaragoza station. From Zaragoza it goes to Ciudad Victoria, Ciudad Victoria to La Loma, La Loma to Reynosa. This highway already exists, it is an A2, that is, two lanes, and we are going to expand it to an A4. Why? So that they can travel faster, more efficiently, with fewer accidents, and can reduce times, thus reducing costs for all the people who travel, as well as for the companies that operate in this part of the country. Next. One of the important corridors is to finish connecting Mexico City with the Gulf, reaching Tuxpan. I mentioned this a bit in the previous part of my presentation. In the previous administration we did the Mexico-Pachuca. We went from an A4 to an A8. Right now we have already started construction to go from two lanes to four lanes on the Tulancingo-Necaxa, and the last part will be to go from two lanes to four lanes from Tihuatlán to Tuxpan to reach the coast, right? So what we are doing is continuing to improve the entire central part of the country to be able to reach the ports and also the border with our northern neighbor better. Next. We have Route 57. This is also being done as an effort at the federal level, also with the state governments, because there will be concessions and mixed investments with the states. Here we can see some of the interventions we are doing. What we are doing is the same. We are adding two lanes on each of these sections. We go from Mexico City, through Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, reaching Matehuala, also with mixed investments with the states. We go through the Matehuala bypass to Puerto México, Saltillo, Monclova, reaching the border of our northern neighbor. Next. We have the Baja California highways. Here one of the anchors for this system of highways and roads is the Punta Colonet port. We already have the studies for the highways that go from Tijuana to Ensenada, which is the part in red. And we are also looking at the possibility of expanding the number of lanes on these highways in green that go from Punta Colonet to Mexicali, also reaching and helping with the cargo to the border with the northern neighbor, reaching Mexicali. Next. We have two border bridges. We have the Puerto Verde one, which is for Piedras Negras. As you know, today we have the bridge that goes through Piedras Negras to Eagle Pass. This one goes through the city. One of the best practices we are seeing at the national and international level is trying to get the bridges out of the cities that grew around them, and that is why we are creating this bypass that goes to Puerto Verde to be able to create a new border bridge. We are already working with the American authorities, they will also be working on the United States side to be able to make this new connection and be able to remove the cargo pressure that we have going through the city of Piedras Negras. Next. And finally we have the Nuevo Laredo 4 and 5 international bridge. You should know that 90% of the cargo in this area passes through the Nuevo Laredo 3 bridge. It is already congested. We need to do something about it. And what we are creating is a bypass that goes from Highway 85 to be able to reach Nuevo Laredo. Well, passing through Nuevo Laredo, a bridge, a border crossing will be created here that we will call Nuevo Laredo 4 and 5. This is already in its final stages of the project. We are already creating the mixed company with majority state participation and I hope to start construction in the coming months before the end of the year. And with this what we will allow is to move part of the cargo from the Nuevo Laredo 3 international bridge to the Nuevo Laredo 4 and 5 international bridge and thus improve the commercial connection times between both countries. Next, I think with this I finish. And as you can see, we have a very ambitious highway program, as I mentioned, not only with the federal budget, also with the budget and help of private companies, but with these new mechanisms we eliminate all the bad practices and we believe it will help us trigger more development in the coming year and we will obviously see many of the fruits of these projects in 2027. Thank you very much.
Well, it was a lot of information, with a lot of detail about each of the roads and highways being built, which start construction in October. Well, let's go to the questions. Let's see, let's see, let's see here to the new guests.
How are you, Madam President? Good morning. Poncho Gutiérrez from Enfoque Noticias and DCDP Noticias. A concern about the drill on Saturday, just to know if the audio that will be used will be the one that sounds when... Yes, the one that normally... the one we hope will only sound during the drill.
Yes, a part, as you know, corresponds in the case of Mexico City to Mexico City, which operates the public alarms, the alarm posts are the city's, the city's C5. And the phones, what the phones will sound is already part of the National Civil Protection Coordination. There was a concern on social media where it was mentioned, why not use a special audio that says it is a drill? I don't know if this has been discussed many times, even when I was Head of Government we tried different sounds and in the end with the experts we decided that finally the drill must be a drill in every sense and therefore use the same sound.
Madam President, a little bit about the topic also of Ivanobras, of everything they just presented to us. Is there any calculation or any way to manage the times to do the works and affect as little as possible the people who are using these roads? As the famous sign says, excuse the inconvenience this work causes you because the benefits will be permanent. More or less, what is this based on, how do you calculate this so that people during these months or even these couple of years can continue circulating, without their travel times being affected?
Well, in some cases there are some disruptions, the population is informed that they are temporary with the aim of expanding. Sometimes when a bridge or a highway is being built on one side, traffic is moved to only one side of the road. So it is informed, it is announced and it is said how long it will last and with the appropriate signage so that there are no accidents. And in general the aim is to affect as little as possible. So in each case the population is informed, mainly the states, which are the ones that use it most, and cargo transport.
I also have a question, I don't know if I can ask it, that doesn't have much to do with the topic. Yes. Despite there being a survey, and I say between quotes, where some portals began to repeat that the majority of Mexicans would be in favor of a foreign intervention in Mexico, it contrasts a lot with what we saw on the night of the Grito. More than 300 events around the world, many Mexican embajadas with full squares. Even a survey by the director of surveys of El Financiero shows the exact opposite. It says that the majority of people agree with cooperation, but never with intervention. Reality clashes a bit with this supposed survey.
That survey has nothing to do with reality, nothing, because it doesn't even say the source. That is, it is a medium in the United States that said that according to some survey by who knows who, the majority of Mexicans agreed that a foreign intervention from the United States should come. That is false. The surveys that have been done with professional demotechnia companies say otherwise, but it would also be contradictory with the nationalist sentiment that has increased in our country, with the pride of being Mexican. Foreign interventions do not help and sovereignty is lost. On September 16 we talked about that. Mexico achieves its independence or the consummation of independence in 1821 with an alliance between the insurgent movement and a person, the royalist army and Iturbide, who make an alliance, the famous Plan of Iguala, the Embrace of Acatempa, and independence is consummated. On September 27, 1821, we Mexicans celebrate the beginning of independence, not the consummation, because shortly after the consummation Iturbide betrays the independence movement because they agree to have a republican government and Iturbide crowns himself as emperor and is overthrown by the independence fighters and finally a republican government is formed with the three powers and federated, with the states and the federation. And that is why we celebrate the Grito, because it also has a popular origin, unlike Latin America, where the Grito, well, not the Grito, the beginning of independence was given by Creole military men. In Mexico, the main leader of independence, the beginning of independence is a popular priest, a village priest, very cultured, but a village priest. And he is the one who leads a popular movement. It has been tried to minimize or criticize Hidalgo as if he had not really been what he was. And also a man with a vision of an independent, free, sovereign and just country, because he calls for the abolition of slavery, the abolition of castes and of taxes. But Mexico does not end there with foreign interventions. Spain does not recognize Mexico as a country until 1836, as an independent country. And from there comes the French intervention with the War of the Pastries, then the United States intervention that takes more than half the territory. Then again the French intervention and then with the Mexican Revolution in 1914 a new United States intervention, and in all cases the people of Mexico have fought against those interventions. So any pretext for interference or intervention must be rejected because it violates our sovereignty and our independence. We can always cooperate, they can help us, we can collaborate, but the decisions are made by the people, the decisions are made by the government, which is the representation of the people of Mexico, a foreign country cannot make them. So that is in the heart of the people and that is why it is so important to remember history and to keep memory. Memory is the soul of peoples, it is the shield against any interference, it is the defense of independence and sovereignty. So it is impossible that the people of Mexico, because of our history, accept that there is foreign interference. There will be those who think otherwise, but the vast majority of the people recognize the importance of defending independence and sovereignty.
Madam President, and finally also with this topic of the Grito de Independencia. After more than 2 years, sorry, after more than 200 years of history in Mexico and more than 60 male presidents, with all the errors of administrations, insufficiencies, tragedies in these more than 200 years of history, in these two years a phrase has been heard for the first time in Mexico. Whenever there is some tragedy, some error in the administration, they say, 'This is the last time I vote for a woman.' It was never heard in 200 years, 'This is the last time I vote for a man.' Why? Why attribute this to women? I imagine there is something more political there. It seems to me more a matter of machismo.
I haven't heard it. It is a phrase that on social media there is a sector, right? Let's see how much relevance or legitimacy or majority it has. There will be some people who continue thinking with a machista vision. Yes, and many of our adversaries use that, right? Like the President doesn't govern, she is governed, she doesn't decide, she is a puppet, we have heard that many times, which in the end is thinking that a woman cannot govern, that is what is behind it. But the impression I have is very different throughout the country and particularly young people, girls and boys, there is a very great recognition of...
The importance of having reached the presidency, and as I have said, because I do not consider it a personal matter, it is the struggle of women for historic political representation. Yes, it is a very small, very conservative group on Twitter that repeats this and, I believe, speaks more than the rest of the country.
Yes, besides, I believe society itself no longer accepts this. There is already a very different vision. Just as in the case of any type of discrimination, there is a sector of society that still thinks the colony was the best thing that could have happened to Mexico. And they forget that the colony defended legal social difference. First came the Iberians, that is, those born in Spain who arrived in New Spain. Then the criollos, the children of Spaniards born here. Then the mestizos, and each one had different political rights, different property rights. Then the indigenous, and then the Black population. That was the caste system, as if we were not equal as human beings. From there comes the fact that in Mexico the independence revolution, because it was a revolution in the sense that it has a very popular origin, of the great injustices lived in the colony, of the tributes that had to be paid, of the tithes that had to be paid. A very unjust society, and afterwards the society remained very similar, although it was no longer formally in the Constitution, until the Constitution of 1857, where Juárez and the liberals defend that we are all equal before the law, and that is why the importance of separating church and state and building a civil state. And afterwards that discrimination was maintained throughout the Porfiriato. Well, there were even exterminations of indigenous populations, such as the case of the Yaquis during the Porfiriato. And that is why a social revolution emerged in 1910. And the Fourth Transformation could not be explained without many years of racism, classism, and forgetting the people. That is why there is a popular origin in all the transformations of our country. Of course, there are sectors of society that still view the Mexican population with enormous classism and racism, and that is becoming less and less. Why? Because we have to recognize the origin. So, they are still writing about the importance of the colony. Well, of course there is mestizaje, and of course in our culture there is that part of that mestizaje, but the problem with that is that they forget the origin, which are the original peoples, the indigenous peoples, and they view them with discrimination, as if the great civilizations did not remain to this day in a very important cultural vision. President López Obrador says in his book Grandeza, when he finishes, that imagine what the indigenous peoples have given Mexico. Now, imagine if we recognize it, if a new social pact of recognition of the indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples is constituted, which is in essence the thought of Bonfil Batalla as well. So, discrimination, whether it is machismo, as you mentioned before, or because of skin color or ethnic origin, must always be combated, and that is why we must shout, 'Long live equality!' Thank you.
Well, let's go over here. Let's see, let's see, let's see, let's see, let's see. Who else hasn't asked recently? Let's see, the colleague who is doing this because for a while now... back, back. It's just that he hasn't asked in a long time.
Good morning. Good morning, Madam President. Good morning, public servants. I am Sóimo Camacho from Luces del Siglo. I would like to ask you, Madam President, and since the coordinator of Civil Protection is also with us, about the risk atlases. It has been pointed out that they need updating. We would like to know what situation they are in, since when their last update dates, and also especially about the risk atlases of the states of the Republic and the municipalities, which according to information, practically half do not have a risk atlas.
With your permission, Madam President. Indeed, in these tours that, at the instruction of the President of Mexico, we are carrying out throughout the country, we are forming and installing the command posts. One of the most relevant topics is the review of the state and municipal atlases of the 32 federal entities. There are already very relevant advances. The truth is that all state resources were programmed for this year to be able to promote and update their atlas, and also giving each state a determined budget for its municipalities if they need support, because what is really needed here is to travel the country, identify new risks, and be able to upload them to the Atlas. It is a permanent job, it is being constantly updated. Now, at the national level, our national risk atlas is a very updated atlas that is also fed with information from each of the federal entities, and there are determined budgets every year to continue promoting and improving its technology. We are doing well, we are advancing. Let's hope that next year we will have an upward update in all state and municipal atlases.
Excuse me, official, I would also like to ask you about whether we have a percentage of state and municipal risk atlases that are updated.
As such, it cannot be determined; it would have to be by federal entity, because, I repeat, they have to be continuously updated. The vast majority have an update from three or four years ago, and they have to be updated. If you allow us, we will be placing a lot of emphasis by state, and we will make it known.
Thank you very much. With your permission. On another topic, Madam President, there is a case in Santa Rosa Jauregui, Querétaro, where 1,415 hectares of an ejido were titled to a single person. And recently, the National Agrarian Registry itself, well, endorsed, we could say, despite the fact that it is in litigation and despite the fact that there are still processes that have not concluded, this delivery of hectares to a single person. Jorge Antonio González Nieto, a real estate businessman who, at the time of this assembly of ejidatarios to hand over the lands, well, nobody knew him there. However, well, it is an irregular process that dates back to 2007, however, it has been advancing, and currently these lands are already titled to this person. However, when we investigate what is happening around this industrial corridor in Querétaro, we see that he is not the only person; there are other businessmen and even politicians with lands throughout this corridor. We have the case, for example, that the governor of the entity himself is a shareholder in some agrarian nucleus. And we have other cases in the Republic that have been reproduced, such as Raúl Salinas de Gortari, Ejidatarium, Puebla, for example, and that have indeed been hoarding lands under the protection, many times, of officials from the entities themselves that should protect agrarian property. Madam President, what is being done to review all these types of cases? I have already raised this with you on other occasions, the return of the landowners to the country, more than 222,000 hectares hoarded by 400 officials, former officials, and businessmen in Mexico.
Yes, we asked Edna Vega, the Secretary of Sedatú, to come one day to be able to talk about what you mention. In 1992, the Constitution was changed and it allowed the privatization of the ejidos, and indeed it has happened in some places where there is again a concentration of lands. What first of all needs to be reviewed is the legality within the framework of what exists now, and second, to see the concentration. So we asked Edna to be able to present.
Madam President, and on this topic, has your administration thought about making any reform to Article 27 of the Constitution precisely to recover the spirit of the constituent of 1917?
No, we have not thought about it. What is true is that since the last administration there has been follow-up by the Agrarian Attorney's Office of the land sale processes to avoid this, to avoid illegalities in the first place, and second, high concentrations, right? Talking with the ejidos.
Madam President, on another topic, recently there was a demonstration by rural normalistas from the MES in one of your tours. And to ask you about, well, in the case of El Mesche, it is a rural normal school that was closed, we must remember, in a situation of violence with a lot of violence from a PRI government at that time, it was closed and it was said since the previous administration that one way to vindicate the rural normal schools would be with the reopening of El Mesche. There is a reopening, but not with the five axes that make up rural normalism, and that we could not necessarily speak of a rural normal school, even if it carries the name, unless it has all those axes that distinguish it from the other models of normalism in the country. To ask you if there is any intention of your administration regarding El Mesche to reincorporate it with all the axes of rural normalism on the one hand, and on the other also your opinion, Madam President, on what has happened at the normal school of Teteles, where there has been a student conflict and for which a lawyer, Alejandro Martínez, who is an advisor to the normalistas of Teteles, is imprisoned, and besides, what he is accused of is having supposedly ordered the occupation of the normal school when, well, it was practically a method of struggle that students have carried out for a long time, the CU itself or the CGH, at the time have taken the university facilities as a measure of struggle, as a measure of pressure, however, the lawyer is in prison today precisely because of that.
That is a whole topic, the rural normal schools. There is a working table in both cases coordinated by the Ministry of Public Education and in which the Ministry of the Interior participates, with two objectives. One is to guarantee that there is no violence in any sense, nor repression, and the other is to also guarantee public education, because also in the case of the rural normal schools, the most important thing is to guarantee that there is an adequate education to train rural teachers, which is the objective. We can talk about it in more detail another day, but in both cases there is a working table.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Let's go to this side, let's see, to the back. Thank you, Madam President. There is a topic associated with what you have spoken about regarding the defense of sovereignty. The report of the United States government on the fight against drugs throughout the world and specifically in the chapter referring to Mexico, makes some very severe observations about the fight against organized crime cartels in Mexico and also makes a call for a greater effort against politicians who are allegedly involved with organized crime. What would be the position of your government regarding this report from the United States government?
I would like to see or hear a report on what the United States government does in the United States. We have said here many times, President Trump acknowledged it at some point. And it is acknowledged in a document from the so-called Drug Czar, from Sara Carter. What is being done with consumption? Because from our perspective it is a public health issue, of attention to young people, because historically there has been a vision of who brings the drug, which obviously must be fought. Nobody agrees that drugs should be produced here to take them to the United States, and we must work so that this does not happen. But what happens with the consumer over there? What happens with a critical view of why this opioid consumption crisis occurs, which comes mainly from medications that were authorized despite knowing they would cause addiction? Here we passed a series a while ago to see if it could be linked to the Mexican government, to social media, of how opioid consumption was growing in the United States as a result of the authorization of pain drugs and that it was being directed towards fentanyl. Unfortunately, where is that vision? Where is the work being done to stop all the cartels or drug distributors in the United States? What happens with money laundering in the United States? Because we in Mexico are acting, acting. Recently there was another arrest of a municipal official who was known to have links, always with investigation, but what happens on the other side? And that is something indispensable. What happens with the weapons that come from the United States to Mexico, that there have been arrests, there have been seizures, but the firepower that organized crime has in our country could not be explained without the passage of weapons from the United States to Mexico illegally. So, we take care of things here in Mexico. Here we passed the other day a very serious corruption case in the United States. Fortunately, in that case they acted as we have acted. In other cases, when there is evidence of officials who are linked, regardless of political party, to illicit activities. But recently we presented here a case of DEA agents who allowed the trafficking and sale of fentanyl in New Mexico. It says, 'Congress and the state prosecutor demand answers.' So, we do not need to be judged from outside. We know what Mexico's problems are and we act every day and we report it. I say, when I go to the states, that is the annual report, the annual accountability, but we report every day. And we are subject to public scrutiny every day and every day we deliver results. But what happens over there? So I would like to see a report from the government itself on the results over there and what is being done.
Thank you, Madam President. On another topic, you have already offered us on several occasions the tsunami alert. I don't know if it is ready yet, if it will be presented soon.
Now we are going to present it.
At the end of the month, at the end of September, early October they will present it.
Thank you. And finally, a detail perhaps for that child we had, well, that we noticed on the day of the Grito, the day of the speech you gave from the balcony. Allende was missing, was it an omission? Maybe the name slipped your mind, it slipped your mind.