Mexico City, Apr 17 (EFE).- The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, told Mexican businessmen on Monday that “we must work together” and obtain mutual benefit, in addition to insisting on inviting them to invest in the community autonomous that governs
The president, who spoke for 40 minutes about the Galician context at the event held at the Centro Gallego de México, located in the Mexican capital, highlighted three elements that make Galicia a good place to invest and do business.
“We have political and legal stability, good realistic economic management, and opportunities that are not coming, it’s that we already have them and we are not going to let them pass,” Rueda said on the last day of his institutional visit to Mexico.
In addition, he thanked the Galician businessmen who reside in Mexico for their way of “defending and living their land.”
And he assured that his intention is to “intensify the relations that have always existed between Galicia and Mexico.”
In his speech, he shared that currently Galicia, which was previously conceived as a complex place for being a “corner” (corner) of Europe, is now full of spaces of opportunity.
“We are a land of opportunities. We were a land of goodbyes for a long time, now I want us to be a land of welcome, for people and also for capital, ”she declared.
Rueda explained that Galicia had a foreign investment of 222 million euros in 2021. Although he assured that it can still grow “many more”, he shared that in 2008 this figure was 27.7 million, so the increase has been significant.
As for tourism, he also established it as a sector “full of opportunities.” “Galicia is in fashion,” he said.
This is because in 2022, although the forecasts were very pessimistic due to the general economic situation after the coronavirus pandemic, some 6.5 million people visited the autonomous community, surpassing the record of 5.4 million broken in 2019.
The figures are “good”, he said, but he insisted that the “Galicia brand” has more to do with representing “a friendly and welcoming space” and having “quality tourism” than with breaking records.
“The tourist development of Galicia has a great future,” he stressed.
The event was attended by personalities such as the Spanish ambassador in Mexico, Juan Duarte; the president of the Mexican Union of Galician Entrepreneurs, Manuel Ángel Hermida, or the president of the Galician Center of Mexico, Alfonso Martínez, among others.
Over the weekend, the president of the Xunta was present at the traditional festival of La Ramollosa, at the headquarters of the Centro Gallego de Iztapalapa, in the southeast of the Mexican capital, where he already invited businessmen to invest in Galicia.
Rueda concluded this Monday in Mexico a tour of Latin America that began last week in Panama and included Venezuela.