Esteva Medina highlights the role of women in the modernization and expansion of the Tuxtla Gutiérrez-San Cristóbal de las Casas highway

This is an automated translation of the press release issued in Spanish

• The head of the SICT evoked the social thought of the writer Rosario Castellanos by highlighting that the work will benefit almost a million people from Chiapas
• “Women must break with the models that society imposes on them to achieve an authentic image and always seek to choose themselves,” she said.

The Government of Mexico, through the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), inaugurated the modernization and expansion of the Tuxtla Gutiérrez-San Cristóbal de las Casas highway in Chiapas, benefiting nearly one million inhabitants, six municipalities and 50 communities, said the head of this agency, Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina.

During the flag-off, led by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and the governor of Chiapas, Rutilio Escandón Cadenas, the Secretary of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation said that the work of more than 46 kilometers was expanded to a third lane in 30 kilometers.

“It is a time of transformation and a time for women,” she said. As is the case “of a Mixe woman who started many years ago, who studied civil engineering, who started with the artisanal roads in Oaxaca, from there she goes to the Nichupté Bridge, they bring her to the La Concordia Bridge and now she is the general director of the SICT Center, she has been here for two years, the person who is in charge of this work: Janet Cosmes, who is with us.”

In this regard, she quoted the social thought of the writer Rosario Castellanos: “Justice is the way love acts in society. Women must break with the models that society imposes on them to achieve an authentic image and always seek to choose themselves.”

The head of SICT summed up: “And that is the story of the women who are with us today: Janet and the President.”

Regarding the work, the federal official highlighted that with an investment of 1,045 million pesos, the highway has three braking ramps, important to provide safety to users, due to the slopes of the area.

He indicated that each of these slopes took more than 150 thousand cubic meters of high-quality material. The work also has lighting and video surveillance equipment over more than 300 meters in length.

This is a project that began four years ago under President López Obrador, in which 42 machines were used, with the support of 400 workers; more than 13 thousand cubic meters of hydraulic concrete and 913 tons of steel were applied.

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