#Mexico: AMLO the policy caudillo. Mary Anastasia O'Grady
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🗓️ 3 March 2023
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#Mexico: AMLO the policy caudillo. Mary Anastasia O'Grady
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-meets-the-rule-of-amlo-tesla-elon-musk-nuevo-leon-univision-renewables-foreign-direct-investment-monterrey-mexico-94437d6f
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batcher. Mexico. I have good news about Mexico. Tesla |
| 0:12.1 | is going to Mexico, Elon Musk and the whole circus to build electric vehicles of all |
| 0:18.9 | kinds into the future we're told. Now this last week was not happening. This week it's |
| 0:25.0 | happening. In between Mariana Stasio Grady published her America's column, she's the |
| 0:31.0 | America's editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal editorial board, recommending |
| 0:35.6 | that Tesla was good for Mexico, but where? The announcement is Nuevo Leon, a state in |
| 0:43.0 | the North, but there's more to this. Mary, a very good even to you. Amelo responded to |
| 0:50.0 | what I'd say was a pragmatic calculation of making money and also providing high tech |
| 0:56.5 | jobs to his citizens. At the same time, there was hesitation. Can you explain these two |
| 1:02.0 | amlos? Good evening to you, Mary. Well, good evening, John. I think the best way to |
| 1:07.0 | understand Lopez Overdor's approach to a far direct investment in Mexico is that he |
| 1:14.6 | wants to be in charge of whether it is approved or not approved. He wants to be the last word. |
| 1:23.9 | In that sense, he operates very much like an old-fashioned Mexican cabillo. When Tesla |
| 1:29.6 | announced that it would like to go to Mexico and make rather sizable investments on the |
| 1:36.6 | outskirts of Multine in Nuevo Leon, which is a very modern and from Mexican standards, |
| 1:43.4 | a very modern city. Amelo grabbed the microphone and said, you know, I'm going to be the one |
| 1:51.8 | who's going to decide that. They have a water shortage problem there. Therefore, they |
| 1:58.3 | can't go there. They'll have to go to some other place in Mexico and I have two suggestions |
| 2:05.0 | for them. They'll have to live with that. That was a point that I brought up in my column |
| 2:13.9 | because it seems like a very short-sighted way to think about development, growth, and |
| 2:21.2 | basically improving Mexican living standards. He was trying to flex his muscles. My column |
| 2:34.2 | course went up on Sunday night and on Tuesday he announced that, no, never mind, I'm going |
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