Pseudo-environmentalists did not denounce the ecological catastrophe of Vulcan in QR, AMLO reproaches

Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia

Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday June 9, 2022, p. 13

The pseudo-environmentalists who today oppose the Mayan Train are financed by our adversaries and did not speak out against the ecological catastrophe caused by the American Vulcan Materials Company for the exploitation of minerals in one of the most beautiful beaches in the world in Quintana Roo, stressed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

In the same way, he denied that the construction of the railway project is causing the Laguna de los Siete Colores de Bacalar to lose its tones, since the construction works have not yet reached that area and for now they are carried out more than 200 kilometers away ( one in Escárcega, Chiapas, and another in Chichén Itzá, Yucatán).

During yesterday morning at the National Palace, the federal president defended the project and criticized those who have spoken out against it and promoted injunctions, particularly against section 5, which will run from Cancun to Tulum.

level of destruction

They are pseudo-environmentalists, those who remained silent or did not see what Vulcan (Materials Company), from the United States, was doing. Do you know what level of environmental destruction Vulcan is? A level of ecological catastrophe. Ecological catastrophe! There, next to Playa del Carmen, more than 2,000 hectares to take material and build roads or repair roads in the United States. the sand of the caribbeanhe detailed.

He reiterated once again that the company’s activities have stopped and it will not be allowed to take anything else out of that area. That extraction, he explained, took place 500 meters from the beach, and dynamite was used for it, so the Secretary of National Defense had to send a group of experts to deactivate those explosives once the activities of the American miner.

The President also rejected the information that circulated in various media and was taken up by political figures and other sectors, in the sense that the Bacalar lagoon has begun to lose its colors due to the construction of the Mayan Train.

With the support of a map of the region, in which the route that the track will follow was outlined, he indicated the distance from the points where the works for the train have begun and which are, he asserted, kilometers away from Bacalar.

This is Bacalarhe said pointing to the map, the lagoon. And where is it working? Just opening the gap here (in Escárcega, Chiapas), towards Palenque. From here to Bacalar there are 287 kilometers. How is it that if work is being done here (in Escárcega), is it being affected (Bacalar)?

The other section where there is construction work, he pointed out, is in Yucatan, near Chichen Itza. How far to Bacalar? About 289 kilometers. How is it that the colors (of the lagoon) are going to change or are they already changing if work is not yet being done? It’s already the note. That’s just to clarify that. And the campaign will continue, but with less and less force, because they are not righthe underlined.