Nuevo León, March 2.—Regiomontana María de los Ángeles García Jiménez, Bryant's widow, walks through her land of more than 3,000 hectares, dressed in white cowboy boots, a pink blouse, and a black sombrero. Elon Musk's Gigafactory will be built on this land located in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León: "I already sent him a message that the property he bought belongs to me; I'm the owner. I'll sell it to him, but he needs to pay me and my seven siblings. We are the real owners, not the Garza Ayalas who defrauded him."
Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, surely never imagined that when he flew over this place at the end of 2022 with Governor Samuel García in an official helicopter and chose these lands from above with his flaming finger to build his Tesla subsidiary, the 1,194 hectares that he later bought for more than 100 million dollars had been in legal dispute for 20 years.
The conservative tycoon, advisor to President Donald Trump, boasts of his business acumen, but last year he learned after paying for part of the disputed land, located on the Saltillo-Monterrey highway, that he had been deceived. María de los Ángeles notified him through several letters of the scam she suffered so that the owner of the social network X would rectify while his automotive assembly project remains on hold:
