FRIDAY, JUNE 22
PROGRAM # 8365 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
By decree, the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto authorizes individuals to exploit rivers and basins that contain 55 percent of Mexican territorial waters. The announcement was interpreted by environmental groups as the last stage of the federal government’s energy reform, because now 12 of the country’s most important tributaries can be used in the extraction of crude oil, and also in the mining industry, with the technique of fracking. The decree will allow the exploitation of the basins of the Santiago River, the Ameca River, and the Jalisco Coast, as well as those of Costa Grande and Costa Chica of Guerrero, and those of San Fernando Soto la Marina. It will also affect the rivers: Pánuco, Papaloapan, Actopan, Río Antigua and Grijalva-Usumacinta. Also, in this edition, citizens and activists expose their rejection of the Zero Tolerance policies in the United States that separate migrant parents from their children. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this broadcast of the Voz Pública program, from Mexico City.
Guests: Dr. Elena Burns, member of the National Coordinator Agua Para Todos, Agua para la Vida, from Mexico City; (audio segments) Leticia Gutièrrez Valderrama, General Director of Escalabrinianas, an organization that serves migrants and refugees; voices of Mexican mothers protesting in front of the United States Embassy in Mexico.
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