Just a few days before Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, and despite the tariff threat that the Republican makes in every public appearance, the company Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced an investment of five billion dollars in Mexico, with which it plans to generate seven thousand jobs a year and a contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 10 billion dollars.
The CEO for Latin America of AWS, Paula Bellizia, reported that this Amazon cloud computing services infrastructure from Mexico will be based in Querétaro. And the vision behind it is to support technological development, as well as make the country a more equitable, innovative and globally competitive place.
“Amazon Web Services’ investment in our region is a sum of efforts that shows our commitment to Mexico. We seek to be catalysts of positive change,” he highlighted a day after the main authorities of the country and the Private Initiative announced the Mexico Plan, which seeks to bring our economy to position 10 on a global scale.
Within the framework of this announcement, Bellizia made it clear that “Amazon “came to Mexico to stay” and guaranteed that this investment also means strategic alliances with educational institutions in the country, particularly with the Conalep and the National Technology of Mexico.
And it was precisely one of the main promoters of Plan México, the coordinator of the Economic Development Advisory Council, Altagracia Gómez Sierra, who assured that this multimillion-dollar investment by Amazon in Mexico will help accelerate its digital inclusion: one of the main goals of that union between businessmen and Government.
The coordinator guaranteed that Amazon setting its sights on this country will also help the digital transformation of micro, small and medium-sized companies.
“We know that Amazon has been working for a long time, particularly in the communities of Oaxaca to be able to transform and reduce the digital divide that has historically afflicted us.”
And in this way, Altagracia Gómez invited all the country’s businessmen to ride this wave of growth because “everyone has a place in the development of Mexico, businessmen and women, governors, of course the President of Mexico, the members of the cabinet , chambers and associations.”
The Mexico Plan is a strategy of the new federal administration to close ranks in the face of the next United States administration, which has threatened the country with imposing new tariffs in case of not abiding by conditions such as stopping migration and drug production.
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