Geographical and cultural ties contributed to the phenomenon
Rich Mexicans get a Corona vaccine in the United States
Mauricio Fernandez gets vaccinated in Texas as a necessity.
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The city of San Pedro Garza Garcia houses the most important companies in the country.
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Thousands of San Pedro residents can afford to pay for the Corona vaccination trip in America.
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Residents of San Pedro Garza Garcia spend their days requesting and sharing information about where they can be vaccinated against Corona in the United States, and most of them are over the age of 60, which means that they are vulnerable to infection with the virus, but not all of them, and in this city, which is the richest in Mexico, Everyone seems to know someone, at least, who was vaccinated in Texas or Florida, and it seems that the situation is the result of a combination of despair and urgency, and the city is located in the state of Monterrey, only 250 kilometers from the US border, and it is the headquarters of the largest companies in Mexico, such as "CEMEX", and the global "Alpha" group.
Thousands of people have the economic means to pay for the Corona virus test, which is required to enter the United States, the cost of the trip, stay in a hotel, and rent a car to visit an open vaccination site, and this is exactly what the city's wealthy are doing.
Among these cases, the former mayor of San Pedro Garza Garcia, 70-year-old Mauricio Fernandez, who is also a former senator, has shares in some large companies in the city, and Fernandez said, on social media, that he was able to take The vaccine is in Los Fresnos, Texas, while traveling with friends to the United States.
Fernandez and his friends discovered that vaccines are available in nearby American towns, but he had to register in line, but in some cases it is possible to just wait outside the vaccination site.
The former mayor explains: “They told us that those who are registered over the age of 65 will be vaccinated.” Fernandez used his Mexican passport as an identity card and was vaccinated. “It is generous that everyone in the queue is given the vaccine, even if they are unregistered immigrants,” he said. Or Mexicans. ”He continued:“ The Americans did not say to this person yes and to that person no. ”Sources in the state say that the influx of foreign nationals who are being vaccinated in Texas is so great that the state’s residents, who are still waiting for their turn, began to feel frustrated. But the director of "Houston Methodist" Hospital, Mark Baum, said that it is not a big problem, explaining: "If a certain number of doses are given to other people, this is not the biggest problem that we are dealing with." The media also raised the case with Texas Governor Greg Abbott. "Vaccines Texas for Texans," he responded in a video message to Channel 5 News.
The current mayor of San Pedro Garza Garcia, Miguel Treviño, says the city has a very close relationship with the United States, especially with Texas, and explains: “We are not only connected geographically, but we are also linked culturally, through family ties and friendships,” and the city lives It has a large number of people who have US citizenship or residency in the United States, so all these ties, which form part of society, allow access to vaccination in Texas, which is what happened.
It is a luxury that only a few in Mexico can afford, and in San Pedro Garza Garcia the per capita GDP is 50,935 dollars. According to the 2020 report issued by the US credit rating agency Fitch Ratings, the city has the highest income of all The cities of Latin America, and in the city the first cases of Coronavirus were reported in Mexico, and residents of San Pedro Garza Garcia had traveled to the US state of Colorado on a ski trip, and came back infected with the virus, and for this reason, the Mexican Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health said, Hugo Lopez Gatel, in June, said that the disease "was brought on by high-income social groups, who are the richest social groups in the country."
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