Multiple government watchdog groups have called for an investigation after a Mexican company received rapid approval on a multi-million-dollar mining contract in Colorado shortly after it expressed support for President Donald Trump’s border wall.
Days after Trump’s election in 2016, Enrique Escalante, the chief executive of Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC), told Reuters that the company was “ready to lend its services” to build the border wall which the president promised during his campaigned.
“For the business we’re in, Trump is a candidate that does favor the industry quite a bit,” he told the outlet.” Continue reading.