Tren Maya’s Section 5 South Is Rerouted Yet Again
More than 60 percent of the road will be an elevated viaduct to protect the karstic soil, cenotes, caverns and underground rivers in the area
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Judge Slaps New Suspension on Tren Maya’s Section 5
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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Twilight
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Trees
Read moreSpinoza’s Eternal Wisdom
OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE What do the writings of Baruch Spinoza, a remote, 17th century Dutch philosopher of Dutch philosopher of Jewish Portuguese origins, have to say about the predicaments of the 21st century? A lot, because the fanaticisms that he faced alone in his time have multiplied in ours. The fanaticism of his times provoked religious wars; the current
Read moreAMLO Turns Former NAICM Site into Nature Reserve
By KELIN DILLON Just one day after the inauguration of Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) declared Lago Texcoco – the former site of the canceled Mexico City New International Airport (NAICM) – to be a protected nature reserve, putting an official nail in the coffin of the NAICM’s construction. Published in
Read moreMexico City’s 10 Billion-Peso Chapultepec Park Project Resumes
BY KELIN DILLON During his daily morning press conference on Thursday, March 10, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced the resumption of Mexico City’s 10 billion-peso Chapultepec Forest project, which will develop and integrate an 88-hectare fourth section into the Latin America’s second-largest park, following a two-year pause in the venture due to the covid-19 pandemic. The project
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An Assault on Nature
Read moreTales of Cortés, Queen Calafia and Our Lady of Loreto
By BOB SCHULMAN (†) “Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California … and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons.” So wrote Spanish author Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo of a fictional paradise ruled by a black super-woman he called Queen
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