A meeting between Samuel García and senior executives of BlackRock, the most powerful investment management company in the world, went almost unnoticed.
I bring up this meeting for two reasons (the second is extremely important). First, because information has already leaked that the agreements between Samuel García and the executives of BlackRock revolved around investments in road infrastructure, given that this investment company considers Nuevo León as the future headquarters of its largest investments in Latin America. And that is no small thing, because this management company manages more than 10 billion dollars in assets, which is comparable to the combined GDP of the three largest European economies: Germany, the United Kingdom and France.
However, for reasons of realistic geopolitics (I am not from the idealistic geopolitical school, because the road to hell is paved with deluded dreamers), I consider that the second reason I will give you is the most relevant: at the same time that Donald Trump’s victory as the next president of the USA was being ratified, the head of BlackRock, Larry Fink, was negotiating privately at the National Palace with President Claudia Sheinbaum on the follow-up to the restructuring of the public debt of CFE, Pemex and projects such as the Mayan Train.
Coincidence? Coincidence of events? No. In this US presidential campaign, BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, who together control most of global finance, leaned towards the Democratic Party and positioned their agenda of clean energy and a healthy environment.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, received the support of BlackRock’s competition, which is the asset manager Blackstone (guilty of the real estate crisis in Spain, with its vulture funds), Apollo and Carlyle Group.
Of course, for marketing reasons, the public support for Kamala Harris came from the media-savvy Reed Hastings, owner of Netflix; Reid Hoffman, creator of LinkedIn and advisor to Microsoft; as well as Roger Altman, former head of Lehman Brothers and current director of the Evercore bank. These companies do not have friends, but interests. And Kamala Harris is already history.
And I could omit the significant fact that Trump’s most media-savvy patron was Elon Musk (who I assure you will insist on setting up his Tesla Gigafactory in Nuevo León after the electoral storm passes and he already has a good part of the control of power in Washington in his hands. I estimate that this will happen in mid-2026).
This government control will not only give Musk good dividends, especially to his company Space X, NASA’s main external supplier, but will reopen investment channels, now in relative parenthesis due to evidently transitory electoral compulsions.
Is it good that Sheinbaum negotiated with Larry Fink while Donald Trump celebrated his victory in Mar-a-Lago? Yes. The renegotiation of the T-MEC is coming, and we must not forget (as I pointed out in past articles) that BlackRock is behind the investment of “Mexico Pacific”, which will be the largest global supplier of liquefied natural gas from the Gulf of California to Asia. This unprecedented Mexican-American regional project, which will start from none other than Sonora, with an investment of $20,000 million dollars, already managed by the CEO of Mexico Pacific, Sarah Bairstow, with BlackRock, will determine the relaxed relations between the two countries. We are Siamese twins, whether we like it or not, the new multipolar spectrum of regions in commercial conflict.
Donald Trump, who is a great and tough negotiator, will not let this fact pass when he sits down to renew the clauses of the treaty with Mexico. And he will not let it pass so much that one of his first actions yesterday was to speak for almost an hour with Sheinbaum, personally inviting her to the presidential inauguration ceremony on January 20 (almost no foreign president is usually invited to this type of ceremony). In addition, Trump has already given instructions that the person who will attend to the Secretary of Economy of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard (the foreign minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente will be a mere decorative vase), will be none other than Susie Wiles, the shadow director of his presidential campaign and whom he just yesterday named his brand new chief of staff in the White House for his second term. What you should know is that when Trump commissions Wiles for a secret mission, it is always to reach agreements and fulfill alliances, not to hit and much less subdue enemies. I won’t tell you the main thing because I’m putting more than just my sources at risk.
In other words, the negotiations between the two neighboring countries will have nothing to do with the pressures that Trump subjected us to during his first and troubled presidential term. They will be tense, severe, critical negotiations, but we Mexicans already have something to respond to our powerful northern neighbor. Tough times are coming, as Mario Vargas Llosa titled his penultimate novel.
Source: elhorizonte
