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Quadri de la Torre: A successful country needs successful businesses and business leaders.

MEXICO CITY – Business leaders should be among Mexico’s national heros, said Gabriel Quadri de la Torre, the New Alliance Party’s (PANAL) presidential candidate.

Quadri de la Torre, a lesser recognized name than Enrique Peña Nieto or Josefina Vázquez Mota, the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) and Nation Action Party’s (PAN) presidential candidates, respectively, is known for his liberal economic and green policies.

At a press conference on Thursday, the candidate said that Mexico’s business culture is suffering from a lack of capable business leaders and, although Mexico could become a developed country in 20 to 30 years, structural reforms are needed for the economy to advance.

“A successful country needs successful businesses and business leaders,” he said.

Quadri de la Torre noted that Mexican business leaders remain absent from school textbooks, while violent figures are displayed prominently on the pages, promoting violence over economics and business. In Mexico, Francisco “Pancho” Villa and Emilio Zapata, who both participated in the Mexican Revolution, are two of the country’s most famous figures.

“In the vault of national heros, there is not one business leader,” he said.

“Mexico needs to give business leaders prestige (and) a place on the national scene as creators of jobs and as people who promote investment, and risk their capital and their interests in favor of opening new employment opportunities in the country.”

The candidate stressed the need for education reform, saying that public schools should model business and economics courses after the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education’s (ITESM).

The candidate is also in favor of creating a department within the Federal Police that would protect natural resources, eliminating gasoline subsidies and income tax, building a new airport in Texcoco and strengthening Mexico’s tourism industry.

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