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Francisco Meré

@Paco_Mere

Financial Services & Tech / Canon & Leica Photographer 📷 / Advanced Diver 🤿 / building @bloomscapital / Latitud Fellow / @columbia @eld_oficial

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Dos pequeñas lecciones de historia (para su próximo libro): 1.- Juárez se impuso en la Guerra de Reforma con la intervención armada de los Estados Unidos, que con la corbeta USS Saratoga detuvo los barcos con los que Tomás Marín pretendía cerrar el sitio sobre Veracruz, dándole la victoria a Miramón. Si tanto admira a Juárez debería saberlo. 2.- Lincoln depuso por las armas al dictador Jefferson Davis, presidente de la Confederación de Estados Americanos, país golpista que se separó de los Estados Unidos para mantener la esclavitud. 3.- Un pilón: USTED debió combatir con todo al narcotráfico. Nunca lo hizo, ni siquiera con los infantiles insultos que dispensó a miles de mexicanos …excepto, claro, a los narcos. Gracias a su omisión hoy estamos bajo la mira de los gringos.
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Estoy retirado de la política, pero mis convicciones libertarias me impiden callar ante el prepotente atentado a la soberanía del pueblo de Venezuela y el secuestro de su presidente. Ni Bolívar ni Lincoln aceptarían que el gobierno de Estados Unidos actuara como una tiranía mundial. Presidente Trump: no caiga en la autocomplacencia ni escuche el canto de las sirenas. Mande al carajo a los halcones; usted tiene capacidad para actuar con juicio práctico. No olvide que la efímera victoria de hoy puede ser la contundente derrota del mañana. La política no es imposición. Recuerde que “el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz”, como nos enseñó Benito Juárez en el siglo XIX. Soy mexicano con mucho orgullo, pero también latinoamericano. Apoyo incondicionalmente a mi presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum. Por ahora no le mando un abrazo. AMLO

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Francisco Meré
Francisco Meré@Paco_Mere·
@pitdesi And the guy was the actual operator at Infratur (today Fonatur) a trust fund at the Mexico’s central bank was Romárico Arroyo, a brilliant civil engineer graduate from Stanford University (operations research). Later went on to run mines and eventually Minister of Agriculture.
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Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi·
Cancun is not my cup of tea, but boy is it an incredible success story of engineering: the Mexican government engineered a tourist hotspot custom-built to attract American dollars, from a place that had nothing in 5 short years. In the late 60s, Mexico ran a huge trade deficit with the US. They were industrializing rapidly, importing machinery and materials that had to be paid for in dollars. Tourism offered a solution, a way to earn foreign currency using assets Mexico already had: beaches, climate, and ancient ruins. They actually spent months building a computer model, feeding data to an IBM 360 to analyze Mexico’s entire coastline, evaluating climate, beach quality, accessibility, and development costs. The computer selected Cancun #1, a remote sandbar that had a population of 3 people during the 1970 census. The 2nd option was Ixtapa. Cancuns location was perfect: turquoise water, white sand, ideal weather, and proximate to all of the eastern seaboard, the largest concentration of Americans enduring brutal winters and seeking affordable beach escapes. Hawaii was already popular for folks on the west coast but Cancun offered what Hawaii couldn’t: a winter getaway without the 12+ hour flight, and a much cheaper experience. The Caribbean location and dry season from November to April aligned perfectly with when East Coasters most desperately wanted sun. The government invested over $100 million in infrastructure, building an international airport, roads, utilities, and dredging lagoons. They built the hotel zone for foreigners and downtown Cancun for workers, all in 5 years They marketed Cancun aggressively to Americans, positioning it as a safe, convenient Caribbean alternative with better prices than anywhere else. Hotels catered explicitly to American tastes with English-speaking staff, American brands (Hyatt, Hilton etc) familiar food options, and all-inclusive packages. The genius was creating a place where Americans could feel like they’d “been to Mexico” without experiencing much of Mexico at all - you could go to a Hilton, speak English, eat burgers and hot dogs, pay in dollars, but get to say you went abroad. At the time, “going abroad" was often seen as something for the wealthy or the adventurous. For many Americans, especially those from the interior who don’t travel internationally often (as you see on the map) a Cancun vacation counts as cultural exploration, a stamp in the passport that feels adventurous while remaining completely comfortable and affordable. You didn’t need a passport to go there until 2007, which was helpful too. The whole thing worked brilliantly, beyond their expectations. They started the project in 1970 and welcomed the first guest in 1975. By 1980, Cancun had grown to a half million tourists and a population of 34,000 supporting tourism. Cancun is EXACTLY what Mexico designed it to be: a dollar-extraction machine that turns American desire for easy, safe “foreign” travel into billions of dollars flowing to Mexico. —- This story from the New York Times in 1972 was a good read: Mexico had a young Harvard-trained head of INFRATUR spearheading the program nytimes.com/1972/03/05/arc…
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United airlines top international destinations by state & overall. I would have expected Tokyo to be lower than it is.

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Rodrigo Chaves@RodrigoChavesR·
San José, 14 de diciembre de 2025. Extiendo mis más sinceras felicitaciones al pueblo chileno por la realización de la segunda vuelta electoral presidencial de manera pacífica, democrática y transparente. También felicito al Presidente electo José Antonio Kast. Espero que podamos fortalecer la amistad y las relaciones bilaterales para el progreso mutuo con Chile. @joseantoniokast
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Filosofía de lo inmediato@MauVega_Vivas·
@OxytocinLau Dos cosas: Papúa es Nueva Guinea. Y lo segundo, que muestren los “Papers”, para dar certeza a un estudio, a todas luces, falso. 🙄🙄🙄
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Tlatoani_Cuauhtemoc@Cuauhtemoc_1521·
Cuál es tu opinión de este expresidente de México, quien gobernó el destino de los mexicanos desde 1946 a 1952? Usa 3 palabras para describirlo #participa
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