CONCANACO SERVYTUR MÉXICO congratulates governors-elect of California, Texas and New Mexico and proposes a shared border agenda, Digi Mart USA News: Respecting the decision made by voters in the United States, CONCANACO SERVYTUR MÉXICO congratulated Xavier Becerra, governor-elect of California, and Gina Hinojosa, the first Latina elected governor of Texas. The Confederation also celebrated the victory of Deb Haaland in New Mexico, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna and the first Indigenous woman elected governor in U.S.
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“We wish them success in the responsibility their communities have entrusted to them. These results offer a ray of hope to those of us who live close to the border.
There are families who live in one country and gather in the other, businesses that buy in one city and sell in the neighboring one, and people who cross every day to work. For them, having their authorities and their chambers listen to each other and work together has very concrete consequences,” said Octavio de la Torre de Stéffano, president of CONCANACO SERVYTUR MÉXICO.
The election of Becerra and Hinojosa reflects the importance of the Hispanic community in U.S. public life.
According to the Census Bureau, 70.1 million Hispanic people lived in the country in 2025, roughly one in every five residents. The Latino Donor Collaborative estimates that the Latino community’s GDP reached 4.4 trillion dollars in 2024.
Behind that figure are families who opened shops, taught a trade to their children and employed their neighbors.
The victories in California, Texas and New Mexico are part of a broader electoral process in which representatives of Hispanic or Latino origin were also elected to various public offices in the United States. During these midterm elections, communities took part in renewing positions in the Senate, the House of Representatives, mayoralties, judicial posts and other district and city responsibilities across the Union.
In different contests, Hispanic candidates received the support of citizens in their respective communities, reflecting participation that goes beyond governorships and reaches different levels of public representation.
The border region has its own economic weight. Its businesses share suppliers, customers and distribution routes.
Its cities receive visitors who shop, hire services and tourism on both sides. A faster crossing can mean a supplier delivers on time, a store expands its market or a family can visit the neighboring city more easily.
“On the border it is said that people once said ‘vamos a la chamber’ to go to the chamber of commerce, where people met to look for work, meet suppliers and do business. Some relate that expression to our ‘vamos a chambear.’ I like the anecdote because it still portrays what we do.
An introduction between neighboring chambers can become the first order for a family business on the other side of the border,” De la Torre added.
CONCANACO SERVYTUR has a presence along the corridors on the Mexican side through its chambers of commerce and delegations. In those communities, its members live, support their families, develop their businesses and represent the interests of their localities.
The ties with sister and neighboring chambers of commerce in the United States extend along the corridors Mexico shares with the three states.
California and Baja California: San Diego–Tijuana, via San Ysidro and Otay Mesa; Tecate–Tecate; Calexico–Mexicali; Andrade–Los Algodones.
New Mexico and Chihuahua: Antelope Wells–El Berrendo; Columbus–Puerto Palomas de Villa; Santa Teresa–San Jerónimo.
Texas and Chihuahua: El Paso–Ciudad Juárez, including the Ysleta–Zaragoza crossing; Tornillo–Guadalupe; Fort Hancock–El Porvenir; Presidio–Ojinaga.
Texas and Coahuila: Del Rio–Ciudad Acuña, with the La Amistad dam crossing in the same corridor; Eagle Pass–Piedras Negras.
Texas and Nuevo León: Laredo–Colombia, in the municipality of Anáhuac, through the Colombia–Solidaridad International Bridge.
Texas and Tamaulipas: Laredo–Nuevo Laredo; Falcon Heights–Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, by the Falcón dam; Roma–Ciudad Miguel Alemán; Rio Grande City–Ciudad Camargo; Los Ébanos–Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, by ferry; Hidalgo and Pharr–Reynosa, with the Anzaldúas crossing in the Mission and McAllen corridor; Progreso–Nuevo Progreso, in the municipality of Río Bravo; Los Indios–Lucio Blanco, in the Río Bravo–Matamoros corridor; Brownsville–Matamoros.
The Confederation welcomes the opportunity to strengthen dialogue bridges with California, Texas and New Mexico. It expresses its willingness to build, with the new administrations and the chambers of both countries, a shared agenda of agreements and work to facilitate trade, expand service exchanges and promote regional tourism.
“We will keep working with our sister chambers. We want dialogue to translate into agreements that families can see in their daily lives, from a new customer for their business to more job opportunities in the city where they live,” De la Torre concluded.
