Mexico: Rail link worth billions won’t go through

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Mexico: Rail link worth billions won’t go through Texas after Abbott used trade as ‘political tool’

SANTA TERESA, N.M. — The Mexican government said it intends to shift long-range plans to build a trade railway connection worth billions of dollars from Texas...

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SANTA TERESA, N.M. — The Mexican government said it intends to shift long-range plans to build a trade railway connection worth billions of dollars from Texas to New Mexico in the wake of Gov. Greg Abbott’s stepped-up border inspections last month, which were widely criticized as being financially damaging and may now leave a lasting impact on relations between Texas and its No. 1 trading partner.

Mexican Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier said a planned rail and ports expansion — known as the T-MEC Corridor — to connect the Pacific port of Mazatlán to the Canadian city of Winnipeg would not use Texas, but instead the rail line would be routed along the far edge of West Texas up through Santa Teresa, N.M., about 20 miles west of downtown El Paso.

Great job, Governor Abbott. Your stunt backfired again.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Backfired? I think he will consider this success. He chased Mexican trade out of the state.

 

[Gospel]

Backfired? I think he will consider this success. He chased Mexican trade out of the state.

Sure, until he feels that tap on his shoulder to turn around & discover giants holding bats from the Auto & farming industries.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Backfired? I think he will consider this success. He chased Mexican trade out of the state.

Where Mexican Trade actually includes a decent amount of American Agricultural Business doing business in Mexico where it is warmer in the winter trade. But yeah, that is too nuanced for the alt-right to care about. We are uncertain whether Abbott is savvy enough to understand it himself (or whether he is just another sociopathic Ted Cruz).

 

[Jarhyn]

Backfired? I think he will consider this success. He chased Mexican trade out of the state.

Sure, until he feels that tap on his shoulder to turn around & discover giants holding bats from the Auto & farming industries.

That may, ultimately, be the thing that causes conservative causes to fail.

The fact is, with DeSantis and Disney, and now Abbot and industries that rely on rail, and eventually other large industries as well getting squeezed by the con, there is a shoe that is going to drop.