Binational investment and infrastructure projects
March 23, 2022
Institutional Context
The High Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) between the United States and Mexico is a binational mechanism of dialogue created in 2013 by Presidents Barack Obama and Enrique Peña Nieto. This mechanism is directed at advancing economic and trade priorities to promote economic growth, job creation, and global competitiveness for Mexico and the United States.
Binational investment and infrastructure projects*
On March 23, the Chief Officer for North America, Roberto Velasco, visited, together with the Director of Border Affairs for North America, Pablo Gálvez de Yturbe, important binational investment and infrastructure projects on the northern border, which are part of the objectives of the HLED. The Foreign Ministry envoys were accompanied by the Mexican Consul in El Paso, Mauricio Ibarra. Velasco also met with Consul Ibarra to discuss the advances in the implementation of the new MiConsulado appointment scheduling system to improve attention in consular documentation, attention and protection services aimed at protecting all Mexicans who require it, regardless of their migratory state.
