Mexico City /
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that the American company Vulcan Materials, You can go to any court because Mexico is right. protect their territory and natural resources.
In The morning conference at the National Palacethe president explained that no property has been expropriated from this company, but rather It was declared a Protected Natural Area the area where they exploited a bank of materials.
“Since we are completely right, we can go to any court and only to find that there is no justice and hypocrisy reigns, because they talk about protecting the environment, preventing climate change and look what they do, building material banks to take the gravel to the United States.”
On Monday, September 23, the federal government published a declaration of a protected natural area of a land that covers three municipalities of Quintana Roo, with which The port and the limestone quarry were taken owned by the American Vulcan Materials Company
The decree that gave life to the new protected natural area, called Felipe Carrillo Puerto, was published in the evening edition of the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on Monday, September 23, and It establishes that it covers an area of 53,227 hectares, seven areas and 2.37 centiares in the municipalities of Solidaridad, Tulum and Cozumel.
Faced with this, Calica announced that “We will defend ourselves using all available legal means.”
In this context, the president accepted that this litigation will be inherited by the government of Claudia Sheinbaum, however, he said that This does not concern him because it is a matter related to the defense of the territory.
He also recalled that Vulcan was offered to buy the land and even reach an agreement, but they rejected it. “always arrogance, not understanding that Mexico is an independent country.”
“There is no expropriation, it is a declaration of a Protected Natural Area, there is no way we are not going to protect our natural resources. Imagine if they take gravel from paradise, because it is one of the most beautiful areas of Mexico and the world, the Caribbean Sea, and that it is used as a material bank so that they can take the gravel to build roads. Aren’t there other material banks in the United States? Don’t they have enough land there?” he said.
López Obrador explained that the declaration includes 50 thousand hectares and Only two correspond to the territory where Vulcan exploited the material bank.
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