Mexican industrialists estimate that the blockade of the Mexico-Puebla highway and the Arco Norte has left losses of 4 billion pesos, due to the fact that they stopped the supply chain and the mobility of citizens.
Since 11 a.m. on August 6, 2024, a group of 300 residents of the municipality of Santa Rita Tlahuapan have blocked the Mexico-Puebla highway, the Arco Norte and the Tlaxco-Tejocotal highway to demand payment for their lands expropriated for the construction of the road and the Iztaccíhuatl-Popocatépetl National Park reserve.
The conflict dates back to June 9, 1995, when the ejidal commissioner of Santa Rita Tlahuapan and the federal government, through the then Ministry of Communications and Transportation, entered into an advance payment agreement for the occupation of surface area for an amount of 1 million 99 thousand 263 pesos at that time. Years went by and the residents were paid.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador considered that it is an opportunistic lawyer who is manipulating the residents of Santa Rita Tlahuapan, who maintain a blockade on the Mexico-Puebla highway.
“There is a lawyer behind it who is trying to take advantage of these very opportunistic lawyers. Telling the farmers that they are harming many people by having the road blocked,” said the president.
The Mexico Puebla highway is a fundamental axis for the transportation of people and goods, and its prolonged blockage generates significant economic and social damages.
The Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) affirmed that the blockade of the Mexico-Puebla highway and the Arco Norte drives away investments and compromises the economic stability of Mexico.
“These types of actions compromise the rule of law and economic stability, driving away investments and affecting the generation of jobs,” declared the organization led by Jose Medina Mora Icaza.
Source: forbes
