| | |  Business News | April 2009 
We Are on the Right Track to Overcoming Economic Adversity: President Calderón
 Presidencia de la República
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| | Becton Dickinson announces investment in Mexico for $200 million USD. | |
President Felipe Calderón declared that thanks to the measures his government has implemented to cope with the world economic crisis, in addition to investors' confidence in the country, encouraging signs in the Mexican economy have begun to emerge.
“Thanks to the responsible handling of our economy, Mexico has the acknowledgment and confidence of international financial institutions. This has enabled us to create financial armor-plating that has no precedent in today's other developing economies," he added.
During the announcement of the $200 million USD investment by the Becton Dickinson firm,, a leader in medical technology, the President declared that one example of this responsible management is the fact that during the month of March, instead of a net job loss, there was a net creation of nearly four thousand formal jobs registered at the Mexican Social Security Institute.
“By investing in Mexico, firms are making the best decision,” declared President Calderón, after pointing out that investment in crucial, since it enables the economy to recover and create the jobs demanded by Mexicans.
“I congratulate the directors of Becton Dickinson on their decision to invest and believe in Mexico. You, like a large number of leading firms worldwide, know that our county is a nation with an enormous potential for growth that has everything it needs to succeed, especially the will of Mexicans and its government," he said.
He reported that the capital Becton Dickinson has assigned to Mexico will be for a new manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosí, as well as the expansion of operations in Cuautitlán, Izcalli, Mexico State and that it will create a thousand direct jobs and approximately three thousand indirect jobs.
In the Manuel Ávila Camacho Hall in Los Pinos, the Mexican president said that Mexico is the Untied States' third largest provider of health products, after Ireland and Germany. He added that exports of medical and surgical instruments and apparatuses have risen from 800 million USD ten years ago to nearly 4 billion USD in 2008.
Accompanied by Governors of the State of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, and San Luis Potosí, Marcelo de los Santos Fraga and Secretaries of the Economy, Gerardo Ruiz Mateos and Health, José Ángel Córdova, President Calderón urged his audience to continue with both work and investment to overcome problems that arise.
“I know that we will pull through and I know we are on the right track towards overcoming this adversity. That is why in my government we are working to overcome the challenges facing Mexico, because the point is not to avoid having problems but to cope with them and to have the will to overcome them. The point is to seek solutions without getting bogged down in the situation or going off course, by keeping a firm hold of the tiller, with a clear vision of what we must do to make Mexico change and turn into the nation to which we all aspire," he said. |
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