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We Are Continuing to Pave the Way for a Stronger Mexico: Calderón
 President Felipe Calderón - Presidencia de la República
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August 30, 2010
From the historic Reception Hall in the National Palace, where the Cry of Independence Ceremony is celebrated every year, during this Bicentennial Year, I would like to tell you how we have reinforced Mexico through its highway infrastructure.
Highways and country roads are synonymous with progress, because every new road creates more opportunities for everyone.
That is why, in my government, we have invested in highway infrastructure as never before. Roads are followed by electricity, water and drainage; schools, universities and hospitals are built; trade and investment increase and above all, jobs are created.
In less than four years, Federal Government has built or modernized more highways and country roads than in any other administration. This includes over eleven thousand kilometers of highways, with an investment of over 130 billion pesos by Federal Government, plus private investment.
In order to help those most in need, we have completed 1,200 works involving the construction or improvement of country roads. As a result, there are now road links to nine out of ten indigenous communities.
Moreover, as a result of private investment, we have opened up nearly a thousand kilometers of top-quality highways, such as Arco Norte, a superhighway connecting the Pacific to the Gulf, meaning that drivers will not have to go through Mexico City.
These road links save travelers and haulage contractors time and money.
For example, the new Amozoc-Perote Highway, which provides the best road link ever between Puebla and Veracruz, and the Arriaga-Tuxtla Gutiérrez Highway in Chiapas, which connects Mexico's southern border in Tapachula, in the Pacific Ocean to Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, in the Gulf of Mexico and to the rest of the country and the new Morelia-Salamanca and Monterrey-Saltillo roads and many others.
And we are continuing to build another two thousand kilometers, such as the Mazatlán-Durango, Mexico-Tuxpan and Oaxaca-Huatulco roads.
The largest Infrastructure Program in the history of Mexico has made this the infrastructure administration.
We are continuing to pave the way for a stronger Mexico.
Where infrastructure is concerned, Mexico knows exactly where it is heading.
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