BCS receives its dose of “presidential love” (with invoice included)
There goes Claudia Sheinbaum, as an influencer distributing likes but in mega works format, announcing 12 priority actions for Baja California Sur that sound like a governor’s wishlist in an election year. Of course, with more zeros than the followers of a K-popper. La Paz, Loreto and Los Cabos will be the beneficiaries of this infrastructure shock that includes everything from desalination plants to a hospital with more beds than an IKEA.
Water, asphalt and other modern miracles
What is coming is basically a Controlled Waste Tour: 75 million pesos for Loreto to stop throwing away its sewage as if it were 1800, 800 million for La Paz to have a dam with a cowboy’s name (El Novillo, because obviously), and 487 million to make the seawater drinkable (yes, like in Mad Max, but with better PR). And be careful, this is just the warm-up of the six-year term.
In the category “Things that should work but Mexico”: the repaving of the Transpeninsular (aka “the vehicular springboard”) and bridges that already had more cracks than my post-pandemic self-esteem. The grand prize: an overpass in Los Cabos that will cost the same as 45 apartments in Rome… but hey, at least it will end before than The Winds of Winter.
Bonus track: public transport and other unicorns
The La Paz Metropolitan Service promises to reduce trips from 25 to 6 minutes (that is, how long it takes me to decide whether to order sushi or tacos). Of course, with only 30 buses for 13 thousand daily users… because nothing says “efficiency” like playing sardines in the middle of the desert. That and 500 teaching positions which, let’s be honest, will be enough for pedagogy influencers.
And because every self-respecting politician needs his social hashtag, five LIBRE Centers against gender violence will arrive (one per municipality, like the McDonald’s of the 90s). Oh, and 55 thousand new and regularized homes, because what is the Mexican dream without deeds lost in bureaucratic limbo?
The phrase of the day:“They are a supportive people and they deserve everything”. Non-sarcastic translation: prepare for inauguration photos with scissors in burst mode. Of course, all paid for with the famous Republican Austerity™ (which curiously never applies to cement and steel).
The final message? “Here we do not censor, we only build… and let the 15 officials in the presidium say so”. Because nothing screams transparency like a parade of smiling secretaries in front of “In Progress” signs.
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