Energy projects fueled by natural gas dominate Mexico’s second public-private infrastructure plan announced by government and business leaders on Monday. 

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Worth a total of 228 billion pesos, or around $11 billion, the second package includes 29 projects in energy, telecommunications, roads and water. It is part of a broader infrastructure plan aimed at jumpstarting the sinking economy. 

“It’s very important that the public and private sectors and civil society are coming together to push economic growth in our country, creating jobs and wellbeing,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said. “This will help us get out of the economic crisis soon.”

Mexico should return to pre-pandemic economic levels in the first quarter of 2021, the president said.

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