Mexican president plans to unveil anti-poverty program in Juarez

EL PASO, Texas (Border file) — The president of Mexico says he'll be in Juarez on Friday to focus on urban advancements and aid to working-class neighborhoods.

The president said he desires to carry those improvements to all important cities alongside the U.S.-Mexico border — had been many residents still live in poverty regardless of their cities hosting a whole lot of international-run factories that export billions of bucks in manufactured items and supply lots of jobs.

"we have been to Reynosa and Matamoros. We are actually going to Acuna, Piedras Negras and Nuevo Laredo," Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador noted Monday at a press briefing in Mexico metropolis broadcast on YouTube. "i am additionally going to Ciudad Juarez this weekend. I can be there on Friday afternoon for this software."

He changed into relating to the urban Renewal and Marginalized nearby program, which is a part of his countrywide anti-poverty agenda. The president will also tackle the continued financial recovery and inaugurate the new Paseo de las Luces, or path of Lights, which runs from Downtown Juarez to the Paso del Norte overseas bridge resulting in El Paso, Texas, Mexican news media pronounced on Monday.

Overhead lights and arches on Juarez Avenue near the Paso del Norte U.S. port of entry are a part of the Paseo de las Luces, or route of mild mission. (photograph by way of Julian Resendiz/Border report)

The president supplied no more particulars about the seek advice from nor did he say if he would address the continued overseas water disaster involving the state of Chihuahua, where Juarez is determined.

hundreds of farmers have taken over the state's greatest dam to avoid Lopez Obrador from the usage of water from that reservoir to make payments to the us beneath a 1944 binational treaty. U.S. and Texas officers say Mexico has unless Oct. 24 to pay almost a year's price of water in arrears. That water is intended for use through South Texas farmers and water districts.

Juarez Mayor Armando Cabada informed local information media he welcomes Lopez Obrador's consult with and that he would ask for federal funds for hospitals and public safeguard. Juarez goes through a spate of homicides and drug violence now not seen considering that the drug wars of 2008-2012.

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