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Comment on this article
Andrew Bayuk
May 30, 2023 at 2:25 pmThis sets a very bad precedence and indicator to the entire private free enterprise of businesses in Mexico and external investors interested in expanding their business and investing in Mexico.
A government seizure of private land and infrastructure in particular is telling and should raise pause and question of a business plans and interest moving forward.
This is quite unfortunate with such promise in Mexico, but these types of moves are what you’d expect to find in a totalitarian communist regime.