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Mexico, Guatemala: Electric Connection
GUATEMALA - The Presidents of Mexico, Felipe
Calderón, and Guatemala, Alvaro Colom,
inaugurated Monday the infrastructure to the
electric connection between both countries.
Both presidents stressed the benefits that
the project will bring to 500 thousand-odd
Guatemalan homes, with the installation of
about 62 miles of wire ready after an
investment of around US 50 million dollars.
In his first visit, Calderón mentioned how
both nations, joined by historic and
territorial ties, are now joined in the area
of energy to improve industry and the lives
of many families.
This interconnection will allow supplying
Guatemala with 200 megawatts at lower
prices, but it will be of mutual benefit and
it will extend to cover the whole of Central
America and Colombia, said Calderón.
According to a report, the electricity comes
from different sources, like the hydraulic
and eolian, by a new project in the Mexican
state of Oaxaca.
Colon, on his part, assured this is only the
first project with future possibilities and
he urged his guest to boost others to
exploit forests, water sources and the other
shared resources.
The heads of State also visited this
capital, where the visitant will receive the
official welcome and he will meet with his
host, to talk about many different points of
bilateral cooperation and later they will
sing a join declaration.
Also this Monday Claderón will attend a
solemn session of the Congress in his honour;
he also will meet with the integrants of the
recently elected Supreme Court and with the
major of this capital, Alvaro Arzú.
Tomorrow they will visit a native community
in the state of Quiché, where its habitants
will thank Mexico by the shelter during the
intern armed conflict (1960-1996).
The last official act of Calderón will
happen some later in the border point of El
Ceibo, Petén (north), where both leaders
will open the road that will join the
Guatemalan territory with the Mexican states
of Chiapas and Tabasco. |
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