Durango has all the serious investor needs. It has abundant forests, waterfalls and mountains in the Sierra Madre. It has swift access to the United Sates border and the main ports of the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico. A steady, educated workforce is available.

      Its inflation rate is below the national average, its labor force among the most efficient in northern Mexico, plus it has a competitive and growing labor market focused in the development of human resources. It is ideally situated at the crossroads of major north-south and east-west thoroughfares that connect it easily to the United States, and the major seaports on both Mexican coasts. And it has one of the lowest crime rates in Mexico.

      Natural gas is available, as are water and electricity. Business travelers can stay in five-star hotels.

      “Ample skilled labor is available, mainly with maquila experience,” says Patricia Cabello, with Grupo ACV, a metal mechanical company. “At basic operating and middle management there is enough. There is some scarcity of people specialized in industrial and technical processes.

      “There is an improvement in education, although I think we must stress training in new technologies, and yes we can find skilled labor.”

      Durango is receptive and proactive, open to investment, as well as to commercial, technological and cultural developments. Today, Durango has about 4,000 industrial enterprises, 90,000 workers and seven productive clusters: textile and apparel, wood based products, metal-mechanics, mining, foods, automotive-auto parts and electronics; as well as an emerging software development industry.

      A solid utilities infrastructure, available and adequate land sites for the installation of industrial processes, an...

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