FRIDAY, AUGUST 17
PROGRAM # 8405 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
During his campaign, the newly elected president Andrés Manuel López Obrador questioned the construction of the new airport in Mexico City. He said it was financially, technically and environmentally unviable. Now, the future president of Mexico announces that the decision to stop or continue the project will depend on consultation with the public. Meanwhile, three legal challenges against the work are still in process, as well as the legal complaint based on the looting of materials, filed by the residents of Tezoyuca, who have seen how the whole crest of a hill disappeared from their town due to the extraction of tezontle rock, which is used to fill the land where the new runways will operate. Also in this edition, residents of San Pedro Tlanixco denounce that their water bodies are diverted to greenhouses who export their products, while the expert in forests, Gonzalo Chapela, comments on the proposal of the president-elect to plant one million hectares of trees. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this broadcast, of the Voz Pública program, from Mexico City.
Guests: (recorded interviews) Octavio Jiménez Rivera, Front of Peoples in Defense of the Earth; Sandino Rivero, lawyer; América Del Valle and members of the FPDT; Gonzalo Chapela, professor, Autonomous University of Chapingo, member of the Mexican Network of Forest Peasant Organizations (Red Mocaf), Mexico City.
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