“ASENSO, NO! Progreso, si!
All but a matter of semantics, really, but Mexico Mayor Teddy Tumang is all too adamant in stressing the distinction between the two terms which basically amount to the same thing – socio-economic uplift.
Understandably, the mayor abhors to have anything to do with the word asenso, its association being with his predecessor and bitter rival, Ernesto Punsalan, aka Tigas. Notwithstanding his having beaten him in the polls not once but twice, and by a wide margin in both.
There is an even deeper reason for Tumang’s allergic reaction to asenso though. Mexicanos say asenso has come to mean – in their Punsalan experience – personal aggrandizement at the expense of public welfare. So just about everyone has chucked the word for the more egalitarian progreso.
Progresibo Mexicano, then. Simple sloganeering transcending to tangible results. Tumang has made it happen. Think of any shibboleth of development, and find it in Mexico.
What better definition of socio-economic development, of urban transformation, than SM City Pampanga? The mall started as nothing more than a glorified block of shops but morphed – in Tumang’s time – into the longest shopping mall in the country, with but a few meters short of a kilometer in length. For the uninitiated, SM City Pampanga is some 80 percent within Mexico.
In the Tumang administration, giant construction supply complex Wilcon set shop in the town, finding complementation, if not a gold mine in the intensive land development and expansive housing sprawls from the uppity to the low-cost all over Mexico, world-renown Lakeshore, Beverly Place, and a Camella project but three of the most prominent.
Yes, and a Sogo Hotel too, signifying the heavy transient traffic accruing in the area.
All these business establishments putting in some P179 million to the town coffers.
The network of roads and bridges constructed, concreted, upgraded in Tumang’s time has made easy accessibility among all the Mexico barangays and the contiguous areas. The intensity of the infrastructure development efforts has moved not a few town observers to append to the mayor some sort of an “edifice complex.” This though in a most endearing term, first finding manifest at the completion of the impressive new municipal building.
And yes, Tumang proudly says, 80 percent of the infrastructure development projects were funded with local funds. Just like the P45-million Mexico Community Hospital set to operate this August. The 50-bed capacity hospital complete with state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, six dialysis machines, and six ultrasound machines is seen to rival even the best private medical centers in the province.
The health and general welfare of the Mexicanos is further buttressed by the Philhealth cards already given some 18,000 families by Tumang. With the operation of the community hospital shall come the issuance of Mexicano Cards for further health privileges to the locals.
The Tumang administration has also done one for the environment with its construction and activation of its own material recovery facility that converts solid waste into organic fertilizer, promotes re-use and recycling as a response to the need for every sector of society to avert global warming.
Good governance proven with tangible results. A legacy of progreso already assured in two terms in office. Is it still a wonder now why no one dared challenge Tumang for the mayorship this 2010?
All but a matter of semantics, really, but Mexico Mayor Teddy Tumang is all too adamant in stressing the distinction between the two terms which basically amount to the same thing – socio-economic uplift.
Understandably, the mayor abhors to have anything to do with the word asenso, its association being with his predecessor and bitter rival, Ernesto Punsalan, aka Tigas. Notwithstanding his having beaten him in the polls not once but twice, and by a wide margin in both.
There is an even deeper reason for Tumang’s allergic reaction to asenso though. Mexicanos say asenso has come to mean – in their Punsalan experience – personal aggrandizement at the expense of public welfare. So just about everyone has chucked the word for the more egalitarian progreso.
Progresibo Mexicano, then. Simple sloganeering transcending to tangible results. Tumang has made it happen. Think of any shibboleth of development, and find it in Mexico.
What better definition of socio-economic development, of urban transformation, than SM City Pampanga? The mall started as nothing more than a glorified block of shops but morphed – in Tumang’s time – into the longest shopping mall in the country, with but a few meters short of a kilometer in length. For the uninitiated, SM City Pampanga is some 80 percent within Mexico.
In the Tumang administration, giant construction supply complex Wilcon set shop in the town, finding complementation, if not a gold mine in the intensive land development and expansive housing sprawls from the uppity to the low-cost all over Mexico, world-renown Lakeshore, Beverly Place, and a Camella project but three of the most prominent.
Yes, and a Sogo Hotel too, signifying the heavy transient traffic accruing in the area.
All these business establishments putting in some P179 million to the town coffers.
The network of roads and bridges constructed, concreted, upgraded in Tumang’s time has made easy accessibility among all the Mexico barangays and the contiguous areas. The intensity of the infrastructure development efforts has moved not a few town observers to append to the mayor some sort of an “edifice complex.” This though in a most endearing term, first finding manifest at the completion of the impressive new municipal building.
And yes, Tumang proudly says, 80 percent of the infrastructure development projects were funded with local funds. Just like the P45-million Mexico Community Hospital set to operate this August. The 50-bed capacity hospital complete with state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, six dialysis machines, and six ultrasound machines is seen to rival even the best private medical centers in the province.
The health and general welfare of the Mexicanos is further buttressed by the Philhealth cards already given some 18,000 families by Tumang. With the operation of the community hospital shall come the issuance of Mexicano Cards for further health privileges to the locals.
The Tumang administration has also done one for the environment with its construction and activation of its own material recovery facility that converts solid waste into organic fertilizer, promotes re-use and recycling as a response to the need for every sector of society to avert global warming.
Good governance proven with tangible results. A legacy of progreso already assured in two terms in office. Is it still a wonder now why no one dared challenge Tumang for the mayorship this 2010?
