Alabama senators challenging Mexican seizure of state company facilities
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Eye on Politics
Paul DeMarco
Alabama has a lot of important corporate citizens. Birmingham-based Vulcan Materials Company is one of them, as it is the United States’ number one producer of aggregate materials, such as crushed stone, sand and gravel. The company is also a major producer of asphalt and ready-mixed concrete.
And unfortunately, the company made the news this past week when the Mexican government seized Vulcan’s deep-water port on the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea. This fight between Mexico and Vulcan has been brewing since 2018, but has now reached the point of the confiscation of the company’s operations.
Alabama senators Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt have been outspoken in their criticism of Mexico and its lame duck president who on his few remaining days in office ordered the shut down of Vulcan’s port.
At this point, if Mexico does not return the facilities back to Vulcan, senators Tuberville and Britt must immediately demand that the Biden administration take swift retaliatory action against Mexico. They have already made it clear to the incoming president of Mexico that he must reverse the actions of the current leadership.
The United States should not stand by with what has occurred to Biden, and Alabama’s entire federal leadership needs to ensure that Mexico feels strong ramifications for its actions.
Paul DeMarco is a former member of the Alabama House of Representatives and can be found on X, formerly Twitter, at @Paul_DeMarco.