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La APUESTA por Chihuahua | Eugenio Baeza en Cracks Podcast

29 Aug 2025 · 3 min

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Transcript excerpt from a Cracks Podcast episode (hosts Oso Trava and Eugenio Baeza) discussing the municipality of Chihuahua’s economy: about 70% of municipal GDP comes from trade, services and tourism while ~30% comes from industry. Of ~39,000 local firms, 98% have fewer than 10 employees and only 1.6% have more than 30. They discuss local hotel capacity (~140 hotels at ~63% occupancy), average visitor stay (~1.5 days), a recurrent floating population figure cited as 350,000, and household employment (≈1.7 people working per household). The guests debate building a soccer stadium (cost cited: 2 billion pesos; payroll 300 million) that could attract ~30,000 attendees three weekends per month (especially if big teams visit), lengthen stays, increase spillover and—they claim—raise GDP by 20–30% benefiting ~600,000 families. Fiscal figures mentioned: state budget ~110,000 million/year and a municipal figure described as 10,000 (units implied millions), with multi-year aggregates sketched during the conversation.

Questions this video answers

70%

39,000 companies; 98% have fewer than 10 employees.

1.6%

About 140 hotels at ~63% capacity.

About 1.5 days (a day and a half).

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70% of the gross domestic product of the municipality of Chihuahua comes from trade, services and tourism.
And people think that we are maquiladores there. Yes, we are industrialists, transformers.
And only 30% comes from industry.
But the most interesting thing is that.
Of the 39,000 companies in the municipality, 98% have fewer than 10 employees with.
Micro employment.
Only 1.6% have more than 30. How many entrepreneurs do we have?
Well, all of them, right? So when you look at that and say we have 140something hotels at 63% capacity, we live off trade, services and.
Tourism, and only visitors stay a day and a half. And we have 350,000 floating hotels all the time. There are 1,100 of us and we have 350,000.
And the Middle class, the middle class of D, because there are no higher classes. When you see that there are 1.7 people working in each household, you go.
To class C. That's why Chihuahua has the economy.
It has, right? And then you go and propose, right, we need to build a soccer stadium.
Why?
Well, because you're going to have 30,000 people three weekends a month consuming here, right? And the stadium costs 2 billion pesos. And the payroll, the payroll is worth 300 million. I mean, to go there with my relatives, the Braves, right? They're between the last and the middle, right? Well, to go up there, there's no way, right. However, if Chivas and Pumas come to play, well, the stadium is going to fill up. You're going to make people stay two.
More days, you're going to generate an increase in the spillover.
Therefore, you're going to generate between 20.
And 30% more to the gross domestic.
Product, which goes and spreads across 600,000 families. Then you look at the state budget, 110,000 million a year today, without making any increase for six years, 660,000.
The municipality 10,000 for six years, 60,000 720,000 million.
And they can't put 2,300 1800 in six years. So you say, really, if we were.
To analyze it as if it were.
Called Chihuahua, saw the presentation, as if we were a saw, right? What is the socially responsible capital capitalism? Well, giving 30% more income to 600,000 families, which then becomes a virtuous circle.
Because it will spill over right there.
Well, it's fun.