Do you have any targets for increasing percentage of inputs in maquiladora industry?
We talked to the maquiladora industry and to people that could become suppliers to them, and if you do it right, towards the end of the Administration we hope to have 20% value added. Q: Previous governments have failed to reach these people with this kind of help? A: The past three governments, I would say, yes [have failed]. If you look at the programs which exist today, they look impressive on paper. The only problem is, they haven’t applied those programs. They have no money assigned. You cannot make these programs work if you don’t put any money into them. The biggest problem we’re facing today in Mexico is what they call industrial policy — we want to call it “entrepreneurial policy.” We have to go beyond industry, to commerce, tourism, agriculture and everything else. As we do this, you will start seeing more and more how these companies integrate into the globalization process. As [that happens,] you see more and more acceptance of globalism by the Mexican population — if I’m
