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Monterrey Mayor Presents Two-Year Report Emphasizing Security, Roads and Social Programs

The municipal government says fiscal discipline financed more than 2,300 million pesos in investment to expand police technology, complete major road works and rehabilitate neighborhoods.

Overview

  • Adrián de la Garza Santos delivered his second Informe de Gobierno in a solemn Cabildo session presenting two years of municipal results and policy priorities.
  • The administration reports over 2,300 million pesos in public investment during the period and says this is the largest total among municipalities in the Monterrey metropolitan area.
  • Roughly 38 percent of municipal resources were allocated to security, the report says, citing a new Police Academy, a modern C4 intelligence center with two additional C4s under development, two C2 command centers, the ARGOS information platform and aerial and camera surveillance upgrades.
  • Major mobility works include the relaunch of Vialidades Regias with more than 1,185 million pesos spent on 170-plus avenues, interventions on five points of the Carretera Nacional including two new vehicular bridges, and the launch of Regio Ruta with seven municipal bus routes.
  • Officials highlighted expanded social services and citizen participation through programs such as Tarjeta Regia Plus, Salud Regia and Transformando Monterrey with 890+ parks or plazas intervened and 339 fully rehabilitated spaces, plus the creation of FIDEBARRIO to maintain Barrio Antiguo; the report’s financial and crime-improvement claims are presented by the municipality and lack independent verification in the coverage.