Since I was very young
I have been in public service,
and I have also had the privilege of
occupying almost all positions of political representation
and that has given me a vision.
I decided to build a series of alternatives
to provoke a profound change.
in Hidalgo, five years ago
the most profound change
which has been sustained over many years
began with a series of public policies and actions
that have determined our achievements to date.
We decided to create new economic development legislation,
from the reform of the constitution, to all the laws.
It is rated by the OECD as one of the best in Latin America
and in developing countries across the world
in the case of sub-national states.
We decided to develop a series
of public-private associations
or associations with the government
We give them legal security;
a one-stop shop service that has worked perfectly well;
And adopted a policy of strengthening the telecommunications sector
to bring together the actions of the federal government
the municipal governments and the state government
so that they are encouraged to invest.
We have digitalised a good part of the processes
that are of great interest to the private sector.
We made a fundamental choice from the beginning,
and it was diversification.
A large part of our economy
only looked to the US
because it is what is closest to us,
and our first decision was to diversify.
Under this strategy we went out into the world to diversify
The leader is agro-industry
because of the agricultural vocation of the state.
We have been, for many years,
in first or second place for barley production in Mexico,
and what we did was support this sector;
we are still the top producer of alfalfa.
What's more, we are already exporting it to Arab countries,
to Saudi Arabia.
We did everything necessary to attract
one of the most important investments
or perhaps the most important in the history of the state of Hidalgo
and managed to establish
one of the two largest beer production plants in the world.
We also set our sights on the automotive sector,
but not on the traditional one.
We gave a special boost to the electrical automotive industry.
We are the only place – not just in Mexico, but also in Latin America –
to have promoted the sector so successfully
that today we have a company
that has the entire range and all the product lines
of vehicles across all segments.
We would like Hidalgo
to be a pharmaceutical cluster.
Looking ahead, I believe that we should focus on
trying to attract
companies that manufacture drugs,
and we are very interested in companies
involved in biotechnology.
We want to establish ourselves
as the main renewable energy cluster in central Mexico,
and I believe that we already are in solar energy.
We also want to attract all the technology companies.
We want ICT companies
to establish themselves here.
For that we are creating a district
for all companies engaged in software development,
system development,
new technology development,
nanosatellite production,
chip production.
We have the best and most significant technological integration
in all of Mexico and Latin America.
Here we are at the C5I facilities.
It is the most sophisticated control,
command,
computing,
communications,
coordination,
and intelligence centre,
in Mexico and Latin America
We use the big data system that you can see here,
and I believe that we are one of the few states that has established
a 300-km fibre-optic network
and a microwave network that covers the entire state
to provide the necessary internet infrastructure, because we have great video system surveillance
with more than 12,000 cameras
that are connected
– 6000 from the public sector
and the other 6000 from the private sector.
We have achieved more than MXN68bn of investment,
which places us
as the state government
with the highest national and local foreign private investment
in 150 years of history.
We were the state that, even in a pandemic,
managed to attract MXN4bn
of foreign investment
for the development of the state itself
and for the creation of jobs.