Increasing climate threats, higher agricultural and industrial demand, poor infrastructure and a rapidly growing population will exacerbate the insecurity if steps are not taken to reconcile available water supply with growing demand
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While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial Tren Maya megaproject has been no stranger to judicial amparos and legal delays across the course of its multi-year construction, a Mérida judge’s recent amparo on the Yucatán Peninsula railroad will now see the development of the project’s Section 5 ground to a halt
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO In yet another chapter in the continuing saga of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) come-hell-or-high-water Tren Maya tourist train project versus the Mexican legal system, a judge in the Mérida, Yucatán, reiterated on Monday, July 25, his previous order for the definitive suspension of works of the train’s Section 5 South. On May 30, the federal
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s ever-more-controversial Tren Maya tourist train project — a 1,500-kilometer railway system imposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that has been widely condemned for threating both the fragile geography of the country’s Yucatan Peninsula and over half of the region’s indigenous flora and fauna — is now facing yet another obstacle in its completion. The
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER On Sunday, June 5, World Environment Day, Mexico — once again — will have nothing to celebrate. The fact that the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has decided to complete ignore and override a definitive suspension granted by a federal court’s legal injunction 884/2022 against the works of Section Five of the Tren Maya
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XINHUA A Chinese cave exploration team on Friday, May 6, discovered a giant karst sinkhole in Leye County, in the south the country’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, bringing Leye’s number of such sinkholes to 30. https://v.xinhua-news.com/dsp_AV/avc_video/202205/08/124bc7afe2404e459f0612cd3956c983_2048k_L.mp4 China’s sinkholes are similar to the underground waterways cenotes found in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The massive newly discovered Guangxi sinkhole measures 306 meters in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that yet another federal judge on Monday, May 2, ordered the stoppage of all construction on Section 5 of the Mexican president’s controversial Tren Maya railway project because of its endangerment of the fragile cenote underwater riverways in that region, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, May 3, said that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A Mexican federal judge from the First Court of the District of Yucatan on Monday, April 18, granted a provisional suspension of the construction of section five of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s pet megaproject Tren Maya tourist train due to it not having environmental authorization to proceed. The section of the track, which
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The monumental pyramids and breathtaking temples of the ancient Maya culture in Mexico’s southeastern regions and Yucatan Peninsula have long dominated the interest and attention of archeologists from around the globe. But while majestically imposing sites like Chichén Itza and Tulum have been studied by anthropologists and historians practically since the first European colonists set foot in
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