In a press convention on Monday, he mentioned: “This isn’t to say we gained’t produce any extra beer, it’s to say that we gained’t produce beer within the north. That’s over.”
The choice comes as northern Mexico faces a historic water scarcity leaving main cities like Monterrey rationing water to its inhabitants as reservoirs hit the underside of their basins.
The New York Instances experiences that some neighbourhoods in Monterrey have lacked operating water for 75 days.
The choice poses monumental monetary ramifications, Mexico is the world’s largest exporter of beer with over $5billion of beer leaving the nation in 2021.
The AB InBev-owned Grupo Modelo, which produces Modelo, Corona, and Pacifico beers has breweries within the north of the nation, as does the Heineken-owned Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma brewery that produces Dos Equis and Tecate.