"Mexico: Rail link worth billions won’t go through Texas after Abbott
used trade as ‘political tool’

Instead, the proposed rail line would be routed along the far edge of
West Texas up through Santa Teresa, N.M., about 20 miles west of
downtown El Paso."

SANTA TERESA, N.M. — The Mexican government said it intends to shift long-range plans to build a trade railway connection worth billions of
dollars from Texas to New Mexico in the wake of Gov. Greg Abbott’s
stepped-up border inspections last month, which were widely criticized
as being financially damaging and may now leave a lasting impact on
relations between Texas and its No. 1 trading partner.

Mexican Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier said a planned rail and ports expansion — known as the T-MEC Corridor — to connect the Pacific port of Mazatlán to the Canadian city of Winnipeg would not use Texas, but
instead the rail line would be routed along the far edge of West Texas
up through Santa Teresa, N.M., about 20 miles west of downtown El Paso.

“We’re now not going to use Texas,” Clouthier said at a conference April 28 in Mexico City. “We can’t leave all the eggs in one basket and be hostages to someone who wants to use trade as a political tool.”
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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2022/05/01/mexico-rail-link-worth-billions-wont-go-through-texas-after-abbott-used-trade-as-political-tool/

TB

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