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Bi-National Socioeconomic Handbook 2018 “Laredos Region“
History of “Laredos Region”
On May 15, 1755, Captain Tomas Sanchez founded San History of the Customs
Agustin de Laredo, on the left hand margin of the Rio
Grande, in what today is the center of a dynamic region Throughout history, the strategic location of Los Dos
that is recognized for its international trade leadership, Laredos has favored the international exchange of
as well as for the competitiveness of its businesses, merchandise and goods between the north and the
organizations and individuals. south. That was the main reason why the Nuevo Laredo
Custom Port was created on August 26, 1855, only seven
The “Sister Cities” of Laredo, and Nuevo Laredo, the years after the founding of the city. This brought official
first one in Texas, in the United States, and the latter in recognition and legal stability to trade between both
Tamaulipas, Mexico, are also recognized either as “Los Dos nations through these sister cities.
Laredos” or as the “Laredo Region”. In both sides of the
river that divides but also joins these two great nations, When the railroads arrived, in 1881, economic and
more than 650 thousand persons live and work, many population substantially grew. Before two U.S. railroads
of them in the international trade sector, which is the connected Laredo, Texas with San Antonio and Corpus
main economic activity that has made the Nuevo Laredo Christi, and the Mexican one connected Nuevo Laredo
Customs Port the most important in Mexico. On the U.S. with Monterrey and from there on to Mexico City,
side, this leadership, experience and drive is the reason merchandises used to cross by ferry. That same year,
the Laredo Customs District is number 3 in all of the 1881, the first international railroad bridge that linked
United States, only behind Los Angeles and New York. Los Dos Laredos was built and this allowed formal
consular and trade actions between both nations.
As a consequence of the Guadalupe-Hidalgo accord,
subscribed in 1848 after the U.S.-Mexico war ended, As time flew by, both Laredos continued to
the Rio Grande was determined to become the dividing grow, in an interdependent and sisterly way. The
borderline between both nations. When faced with this brotherhood between people was strengthened
new reality, a group of families that decided that they by families who had members on both sides of the
wanted to continue being Mexicans, crossed the river and river, something that still today is very frequent.
founded what now is Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on the
15th day of June of 1848.
2 International Bridgo of “Arcos“ sight from Laredo, Texas
