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MEAN STREETS MEDIA

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Ford plans to build another plant in Mexico ( And sale out American's ) No jobs



NEW YORK – The Ford Motor Co. plans to build a new assembly plant to double production in Mexico in 2018 as part of a move that calls for more than $1 billion in investment, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The automaker will add 500,000 units of production in Mexico in that year, the business paper said, citing “people briefed on the plan.”

Ford produced 433,000 vehicles at its Mexican plants last year.

The new plant will be built in San Luis Potosi state and Ford will expand its existing plant near Mexico City, the Journal said.

The automaker will break ground on the new plant at the end of this year, the newspaper said, citing unidentified sources.

Ford plans to produce a new hybrid vehicle in Mexico and will focus on manufacturing pick-up trucks, SUVs and other light trucks, all of which have higher profit margins, in the United States, the Journal said.

Mexico accounts for 14 percent of Ford’s production in North America and about 20 percent of U.S. automakers’ vehicle production in the region.

Ford said on April 17 that it planned to invest $2.5 billion to expand its plant in the northern state of Chihuahua and build a transmission plant in Guanajuato state.

The automaker revealed its investment plans after signing a new collective bargaining agreement with the auto workers union in November, a contract that included pay increases for workers.

Gunmen Kidnap Journalist in Mexican Gulf State



MEXICO CITY – A journalist was taken away from her house Monday in the Mexican Gulf state of Veracruz and her whereabouts is unknown, police said.

Anabel Flores Salazar, a police reporter for the El Sol de Orizaba newspaper, was kidnapped in a residential area in Mariano Escobedo, a city located in Veracruz’s mountainous central region.

The system for locating missing reporters was activated as soon as Flores Salazar’s kidnapping was reported, the State Commission for the Assistance and Protection of Journalists said in a statement.

The multi-agency system coordinates the efforts of the Veracruz Public Safety Secretariat, Attorney General’s Office and State Commission for the Assistance and Protection of Journalists.

Flores Salazar’s relatives were contacted and offered assistance, the commission said.

El Sol de Orizaba is owned by Organizacion Editorial Mexicana, or OEM.

Managers and journalists at the daily El Buen Tono, which covers Cordoba and Orizaba, have received threatening phone calls in the past few hours from individuals claiming to be members of the Zetas drug cartel.

The callers warned that they would burn down the newspaper’s offices in retaliation for stories it published and state police are now guarding El Buen Tono’s headquarters.

Veracruz is one of the most dangerous states in Mexico for members of the press, with 15 journalists murdered there during Gov. Javier Duarte’s 2010-2016 term.