FRIDAY, MARCH 1
PROGRAM # 8554 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
Ignoring the opposition of towns directly affected by the thermoelectric plant, President López Obrador is moving forward with a popular referendum and, after obtaining 59.5 of the votes in favor, announced that the plant will start its operation in Huexca, Morelos. Three days earlier, the town of Amilcingo had bitterly mourned the murder of Samir Flores Soberanes, leader of the so-called Integral Morelos Project, which, in addition to the thermoelectric plant, includes a gas pipeline that passes through the seismic zone of the Popocatépetl volcano, which will use the water of the Cuautla river and the Tembembe river basin. Given the refusal of the president to suspend the consultation, and after the opposition recalled that in 2014, López Obrador had said it was “a crime to put a thermoelectric in the land of Zapata”, the members of the Front of Peoples in Defense of the Land and Water, of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala, said they felt betrayed by a man who came to power waging a leftist agenda, and that now gives continuity to the transnational megaprojects that tear the country apart. In addition, in other news, displaced families from the state of Guerrero, who have been picketing for 12 days in front of the National Palace, have not yet been received by President López Obrador. Martha Elena Ramírez conducts this broadcast of the Voz Pública program from Mexico City.
Guests: (recordings) Cirino Nabor Flores Rosales, father of Samir Flores Soberanes; Samantha César and Jaime Domínguez Pérez, members of the Front of Peoples in Defense of Land and Water, of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala; Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico; Manuel Olivares Hernández, director of the Regional Center for the Defense of Human Rights, José María Morelos y Pavón, based in Chilapa de Álvarez Guerrero.
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