The lack of infrastructure in Puerto Morelos (Yucatán) and the suspension determined by a judge since April 19 from the unloading of the rajón stone that the Government of Mexico bought from Cuba for the Mayan Train, has generated a debt of eight million dollars. According to the economist Mauricio Flores, this is the cost so far for “having anchored” the ships melody and gazibey in Mexican waters, from where “only a few tons have been able to land.”
The ships “are about to close the gates and set sail back to Cuba,” warned the economist. The conflict is because Mexico does not have “a dock near Puerto Morelos with the capacity to receive ships of that depth.” on the boat melody 20,000 tons were transported and in the gazibey, 17,000 tons. Every day that passes without the stones being unloaded generates losses for the company in charge of the transfer.
caravan step #ElSurResiste in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, witnessing the devastation of the jungle by the misnamed Mayan Train
? @suenadignidad pic.twitter.com/h6A2bDgnZA— Angel Sulub (@AakSulub) May 3, 2023
Flores also revealed in his column Cuban ballast operation about to fail published in Central axisthat the transfer of the porphyria stone from Cienfuegos implies an outlay of 20 million dollars, of which only four million were advanced.
The flagship work of the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which will cover 1,500 kilometers between Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo, is in charge of the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), however, for section 5 a contract was to Grupo Indi, one of the most important construction companies in Mexico.
According to Mauricio Flores, Grupo Indi partnered with the Santo Domingo company that “served as an intermediary” with the Island in everything related to the acquisition of 876,789 cubic meters of rajón stone that would be processed in Mexico to obtain ballast.
In May, Santo Domingo Inversiones offered General Gustavo Vallejo, head of the Felipe Ángeles Engineers Group, responsible for Sections 5 North, 6 and 7 of the Maya Train, stone material from Cienfuegos. The company’s offer consisted of the sale of 1.2 million cubic meters of Cuban ballast at a price of $143 per cubic meter, which was able to change by having Grupo Indi as a partner.
The transfer of the rajón stone is in charge of the maritime and commercial services company Mide, which has indicated that having an anchored ship causes losses of $100,000 per day. The only solution to the conflict would be the intervention of the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism in charge of Javier May, who has to do with everything related to the planning of the Mayan Train.
The other half of the environment is morality. #selvamedeltren @TrenMayaMX #trensobrecenotesno #StopTheMachines #DefendtheSelva pic.twitter.com/HUc70OOX7I
— Pepe Shark (@tiburon_pepe) May 3, 2023
Despite all these expenses, the Government of Mexico favored its Cuban partner and opted for it to be its supplier of rajón stone, which represented a way to obtain money and a lifeline for the island’s economy.
Meanwhile, in Puerto Morelos ecocide continues, denounced the activist José Urbina, known as Pepe Shark to 14ymedio. He reiterated that in the construction of section 5 of the Mayan Train “the cave known as Dama Blanca” is being buried, which “had archaeological remains and connected with another cave.”
Urbina recalled that as part of the construction “these structures were going to be respected and now they no longer exist. The destruction of these sites represents an irreparable loss to history and culture.”
To which must be added the damage caused to the corals by the anchoring of the ship melody. It “violated the reserve’s management program, which establishes that anchoring is allowed only in sandbanks and only in emergency situations, and that seems serious to me.”
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