Award-winning Baja home proves accessibility can be beautiful

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August 28, 2019

Casa Cabo Pulmo, a universally-designed home in Baja California Sur.

A house in Baja California Sur that incorporates accessibility without sacrificing aesthetics is an award winner in a competition for universal design.

As part of an initiative called “Accessibility is Beautiful,” the U.S.-based Cerebral Palsy Foundation, in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects New York chapter, put out a call in 2018 for universally designed homes.

From a series of entries, a steering committee looked for homes that would highlight how accessibility can be both functional and fashionable, and then created a Lookbook and mini-YouTube series to promote the selected designs to the public.

One of those entries was Casa Cabo Pulmo by Cathi and Steven House of San Francisco-based House + House architects, a home that incorporates universal design and accessibility in the far reaches of the Baja Peninsula — where land meets sea, and soulful meets utilitarian.

The Casa Cabo Pulmo story stretches back several years to San Francisco where fellow Californians Patricia Wright and Debra Zeyen had often admired the home of a friend designed by House + House. When they came across another House + House-designed home in Mexico, it felt like destiny.

Plenty of room for wheelchairs at Casa Cabo Pulmo.

The two asked the husband and wife team to build their dream home near Baja California’s most southern tip, but with a caveat — they wanted it 100% accessible.

Cathi and Steven House opened their architectural firm in San Francisco in 1982 and added an office in San Miguel de Allende 25 years ago. They have since designed more than 250 homes in four countries.

The two spend several months of the year traveling in Mexico and beyond investigating, in their own words, “what people build when there are no architects around.” Prioritizing indigenous architecture and local building materials gives House + House structures a sense of place that is integrated into their very fiber.

“Underneath all of our work is a very organic beginning,” says Cathi House. “We work very hard to make sure that everything we do comes from a complete understanding of the sun, the moon, stars, the breezes, the views, the shadows, and everything about a particular spot on Earth that could contribute in a positive or negative way to whatever you might design there.”

Casa Cabo Pulmo, with its bold desert hues, expansive cactus garden and sections of palapa roof, invokes that connection to the land. But the house is also deeply connected to the very real needs of its occupants.

Patricia Wright is a disability-rights activist who was instrumental in the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Wright herself is visually impaired and both she and Zeyen could foresee a day when they might have mobility or other serious disabilities.

So they wanted a 100% accessible house so they could, in Wright’s words, “age in place.”

House + House has been incorporating accessibility into its designs for decades. Casa Cabo Pulmo was a challenge the firm welcomed.

“Dividing people into those who are mobile and those who are not — or people who have abilities and others who have disabilities — that kind of division is part of what I think is wrong with our culture as a whole,” says Cathi House, “We’re not holistic enough to think about humanity and all of the needs of the people that might come in to this house or any house”

Plus, she adds, universal design isn’t just for the permanently disabled.

“Something can always happen in your life. You break a leg, you start to develop vision or hearing problems. It can even be as simple as . . . taking a shower and you’re all soapy and you hear a crash and a scream in the other room. You try to get through the door, but you have a round doorknob and can’t get a grip. So are you really disabled at that point? Well, yes, because of poor design.”

The Cabo Pulmo house has some logical elements one might expect in a universally-designed home — a 50-meter ramp leading to the second floor that sweeps up one side of the property, providing incredible ocean views as well an extension of the house’s gardens, kitchen spaces and hallways wide enough for a wheelchair, and lifts for getting in and out of the shower and bed.

Casa Cabo Pulmo is solar-powered and has a rainwater catchment system.

But there are also smaller, intimate details that, unless you have lived with a disability, you might not have considered – sinks are lower with space underneath for a wheelchair, light switches are lower, outlets are higher, doors have zero thresholds and toilets have 180-degree access.

And, in Casa Cabo Pulmo, each of these elements is incorporated so as not to detract from the natural flow of the living spaces.

The design doesn’t only consider the future of the owners, but also owners of the future. The house is completely off the grid with 12 solar panels and battery back-up as well as a rainwater catchment system, convection skylights, and a layout that moderates the extreme temperature highs and lows of the Mexican desert.

“Buildings will be around for a few hundred years,” says Cathi House. “You want to make sure what you create is worthy, not just for the clients of the moment, but for anyone who might ever come to be in these buildings.”

As U.S. baby-boomers arrive at an age when accessibility is vital for continued independence, the demand for universal design is slowly growing, and yet it often remains an afterthought in the design of public and private spaces.

Do the architects believe universal design is part of the architectural lexicon these days? The couple hosts groups of architecture students from around the world each year at their school in San Miguel de Allende — The Center for Architecture Sustainability + Art (CASA) — where universal design is part of the curriculum

“I don’t think it’s being taught in universities the way it should be; I don’t think it’s even a conversation that they’re having at any significant level,” says Cathi House.

“But we certainly talk to our students about it,” says Steven House. “The younger they are when they start thinking about it, the more hope we have for the future, that it will just become natural and integrated into everyone’s thought process.”

In the meantime, programs like the Accessibility is Beautiful initiative are shining a spotlight on integrated design that proves accessibility doesn’t have to mean giving up on aesthetics.

Casa Cabo Pulmo is a standing example of how a beautiful space in a stunning environment can be welcoming to any guest, regardless of ability.

The writer is a Mexico City freelancer and regular contributor to Mexico News Daily.

Mexico City to pay cops 10,000-peso bonus to get their weight down

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overweight police officer — Here's a candidate.

Mexico City’s overweight cops — and more than half are classified as such — will be able to earn a cash bonus if they shed some kilos.

Through the Healthy Police program, the Mexico City Citizen Security Secretariat (SSC) will offer economic incentives to officers who improve their physical health in different ways, including weight loss.

Over the past five weeks, 1,820 officers who were candidates for the program went through a series of physical and medical tests to see if they qualify for the bonus of 10,000 pesos (US $500). Once the beneficiaries are chosen, the bonuses will be paid out over five months.

Alejandra Ramírez, subdirector of police research and development for the SSC, said that being in top physical shape is important for police to be able to do their jobs.

“On the street, police officers face a lot of stress, which pushes them towards having bad dietary habits,” she told the newspaper El Universal. “Sometimes it’s easier to buy a quesadilla or a torta than to find a place where you can eat a sit-down meal.”

The program has funding to cover 1,200 officers, and it is likely that applications will be reopened in the future.

Of Mexico City’s 4,279 police officers, 2,453 are overweight and 1,826 are obese.

Ramírez said the goal of the program is to encourage officers to develop healthy habits over the period during which they receive the bonus, and to help them improve their diets with the extra money.

She added that many of the officers who signed up for the program believed that they were overweight, but after going through medical tests were found to have a healthy body weight and were removed from eligibility.

“Psychological health is also fundamental,” said Ramírez. “It has a lot to do with the state they’re in, what kind of stress they’re in, whether or not they’ll be able to start another diet. It might be complicated, but we’ll be holding their hands through the process.”

Source: El Universal (sp)

Pension fund commission reduction will give retirees 10% more

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August 28, 2019

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Finance Secretary Herrera announces new commission.

The federal government has reached an agreement with Mexico’s 10 pension funds that will reduce commissions and give a person entering the workforce today 10% more upon retirement.

The deal will see the commissions that workers pay reduced to 0.7% of their pension balance by the end of the government’s six-year term, Finance Secretary Arturo Herrera told reporters at the president’s Wednesday press conference.

“During the present administration, around 100 billion pesos [US $5 billion] will no longer remain with the pension funds but will go to workers’ accounts. This means that if a worker joins the workforce today, his pension will be 10% greater,” he said.

Herrera said that in 2008, pension funds were charging average commissions of 1.89% but that figure declined gradually over 10 years to 1.01% in 2018.

This year, during the administration of the new government, average commissions dipped below the 1% barrier for the first time to 0.98%, the finance secretary said.

“This decline of three basis points seems very little but it means almost 10 billion extra pesos in workers’ savings . . .” Herrera said.

He predicted that commissions could go as low as 0.63% in the coming years, which would be below the international standard of 0.7%.

Bernardo González, president of the Mexican Association of Pension Funds (Amafore), said that commissions have gone down by more than 90% since 1997, and that the funds have generated average annual returns for workers of 11% in nominal terms and 5% in real terms.

He said that the association supports the proposal to improve workers’ pensions.

“The pension funds join [the efforts] to achieve a pension system with international standards that benefits Mexican workers,” González said.

He added that Amafore is in favor of the implementation of a pension system reform to ensure that workers retire with pensions equivalent to 70% of their final salary.

According to data from the National Commission for the Pension System, the fund with the lowest commission rate in 2019 is the government-run Pensionissste, which charges state workers 0.82%.

Inbursa charges the next lowest commission rate – 0.95% – followed by Citibanamex and Banorte, both of which charge 0.96%. Azteca, Coppel, Invercap and Principal charge the joint highest commission rate of 1.04%.

Source: El Economista (sp)

Bank of México takes a machete and lops a chunk off its 2019 growth forecast

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August 28, 2019

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The central bank has picked up a machete and lopped off a good part of its previous 2019 economic growth forecast.

The Bank of México (Banxico) on Wednesday cut its growth outlook to a range between 0.2% and 0.7% from the 0.8% to 1.8% GDP expansion it predicted in May.

Banxico said in its second-quarter report that its downward revision was the result of data released by the statistics agency Inegi last week that showed that growth was 0.0% between April and June – 0.1% less than previously reported – as well as more modest forecasts for industrial production in the United States and oil production in Mexico.

The Inegi data indicates a greater weakening of domestic demand than previously anticipated, the bank said.

It is the fifth time that Banxico has cut its outlook for 2019 since it predicted growth of between 2.2% and 3.2% in November 2017. Further downward revisions came in August and November of 2018 and February and May this year.

The central bank also cut its 2020 growth outlook on Wednesday to between 1.5% and 2.5% from a range of 1.7% to 2.7%.

Banxico predicted the creation of between 450,000 and 550,000 formal sector jobs this year, a reduction of 80,000 at both ends of the range compared to its previous report.

The bank cut its inflation rate outlook to 3.2% for the end of the year and predicted that price pressures will continue to decline during the next four quarters.

The downward revisions to both growth and inflation outlooks could lead to another reduction in interest rates, which the Bank of México cut for the first time in five years this month, citing slowing economic growth and lower inflation.

Many analysts said they expected the bank to make a further cut or cuts to the current rate of 8% before the end of the year.

Source: El Financiero (sp)

12 suspected gangsters dead after two attacks in Tamaulipas

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August 28, 2019

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A modified pickup becomes a 'narco-tank.' Sign on the back identifies the vehicle as belong to La Tropa del Infierno, or Hell's Army.

Security forces in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, were able to hold off two attacks by criminal groups on Tuesday night.

As many as 12 suspected criminals died after two separate attempted ambushes of police and soldiers in the border city.

In the first attack, gunmen aboard a pickup truck with Texas license plates attacked an elite unit of Tamaulipas state police near the Nuevo Laredo airport. Seven of the aggressors were killed in the ensuing confrontation.

Police suffered no casualties, but an innocent bystander was wounded by a gunshot.

The second attack took place at an army barracks which was followed by a car chase in which state police supported the military. Five of the attackers were killed.

The criminal organization presumed to be responsible for the attacks identified itself as the Tropa del Infierno (Hell’s Army), an armed wing of the Northeast Cartel, a Zetas splinter group.

Anonymous sources told reporters that the leader of the Northeast Cartel, Juan Gerardo Treviño Chávez, was among those killed but the information has not been confirmed by officials.

According to local media, the Tropa del Infierno sent a message to authorities claiming responsibility for an attack last week on a hotel in Nuevo Laredo in which a police officer was killed and two others were wounded.

“To all the tricky state police who have come to Nuevo Laredo, we made it clear with what we did to you yesterday,” the message read.

Later on Tuesday, families including women and children protested at a hotel where state police were staying to protest abuses by the officers. The protesters threatened to burn vehicles that were parked at the hotel.

Source: El Mañana (sp), El Financiero (sp), Infobae (sp)

Can the Big Brains that have gotten us in trouble also save us?

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August 28, 2019

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A good friend of mine gave me a book for my birthday this year called Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Harari, 2015). She added a kind and brilliant note on the first page: “I hope that in your darkest and strangest moments, you can understand that we are only apes.”

I only got the book a couple of days ago but haven’t been able to put it down. The gist of the first section is a reminder — and we humans do need to be reminded often — that we are animals, first and foremost — that share this planet with all other living things. For better or worse, we manipulate the world around us at our and all others’ peril.

Though we’re not sure why or how, our already-large brains very suddenly got smarter in what the author calls the Cognitive Revolution starting some 200,000 years ago, propelling us to become the rulers of the earth despite the physical disadvantages which should have kept us squarely in the middle of the food chain.

We rule now as a species — predictably, perhaps, inevitably — as any newly anointed 9-year-old boy-king would. Our intention is to be good, but our big brains are great at inventing things, not dealing with the consequences of those inventions.

During our 200,000-year reign, humans have rained disaster on the planet and all its creatures large and small. Most recently our big brains have brought us global warming. Despite our precociousness, we don’t seem to have the ability to make wise decisions.

For an excellent mediation on this, read Daniel Quinn’s novel, Ishmael (1992).

But this is a column of hope, not of shoulder-shrugging surrender. I believe in our ability to get better. After all, what’s the alternative? “Everything is awful, so let’s just keep on making it awful!” is no way to live.

So, hear me out, folks. Some societies have had worse problems than Mexico and solved them. Famine, environmental degradation, war, genocide, the rule of organized crime can be remedied. We can pull it off, too.

Hope keeps me mulling over solutions radical or silly. These are desperate times requiring desperate measures. Here are some thoughts on what is being or could be done to blunt the impact of our greed, apathy and poor decision making:

The environment must take priority. I’ve been heartened to see Mexico taking steps to make care and stewardship of the environment of preeminent importance. Single-use plastic and Styrofoam are on the way out, more efficient and cleaner water distribution systems are being tested, and students and innovators from all over are finding ways to reduce the hurt we inflict on our environment.

For these efforts, Mexico — indeed, all countries — must adopt an “all-hands-on-deck” approach, ensuring that funds and resources available to these endeavors are tantamount to their importance. To continue to live on this planet some key puzzle pieces need to fall into place to ensure our survival.

All politicians and public servants should take a vow of lifetime relative poverty. Look, being a politician is a job of service. We can’t move forward on our goals when the stewards of our institutions are corrupt.

I’m not against people earning and having money. But when politicians have million-dollar condos in the U.S. but there isn’t medicine, updated equipment, or even soap in the bathrooms at public hospitals and schools, something is deeply wrong. Perhaps a salary tied to the median wage would weed out those whose wish to benefit financially from a position of power that trumps the need to be of service to the citizens whose needs they represent.

All politicians and people in charge of the Public Education Secretariat (SEP) must send their own children to public schools. Imagine how much they’d improve if those in charge of this institution had a vested, personal interest in making sure they were of the highest possible quality?

Police and Civil Protection must be selected, trained and paid like professionals. Police are asked to put their lives on the line for everyone that might require protection.

My husband once went to Amsterdam, had a few too many bites of a “space cake,” and with his friend, wound up sleeping on a bench in the park when they couldn’t find a hotel room. A police officer approached them, not to tell them to scram, but to make sure they were all right. This is what police are supposed to do. Their No. 1 job is to protect average citizens.

People must be paid fair wages tied to the cost of living. Most criminals are not criminals because they’ve made a hobby of destabilizing society. People are naturally cooperative creatures, and we want to be of use to our families and our communities. When we can’t find an appropriate place for ourselves, we’ll usually find an inappropriate one. Let’s make it easier for people to find a dignified place in society.

I want my daughter’s teacher to be making 40,000 pesos a month, not 8,000 a month. I want garbage collectors to be making good money — where would we be without them? I want doctors, nurses, administrators and janitorial staff at hospitals to live solid middle-class lifestyles.

The jobs we do are important in different ways, but they’re all important and our ability to have decent lives should reflect that. Mexico does have the money to make this happen. It’s not a problem of quantity; it’s a matter of honesty — the opposite of corruption — and distribution of wealth.

To accomplish all of this, we might need to temporarily “outsource” oversight to an impartial international body. There’s no shame in asking for help. When a marriage is in trouble, counselors are sought. Getting help is the wise thing to do if solutions are to be found.

We humans can tell stories. We can be creative. We can set a structure in place and follow it. I believe in the possibility of wisdom and transcendence. We have made ourselves the gods of this world. Now it’s time to step up and save it and ourselves.

Sarah DeVries writes from her home in Xalapa, Veracruz.

El Pinacate: enormous craters and giant dunes in Sonoran Desert

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Cody Copeland

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August 28, 2019

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El Elegante is the biggest crater at El Pinacate, Sonora.

Marked by capricious rock formations and enormous craters, surrounded by a lava field and featuring dunes towering 200 meters overhead, the El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve will grace the reverse side of the new 200-peso banknote.

The reserve will replace the image of the Panoayan Hacienda, which was home to Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz, who appears on the other side of the current 200-peso note.

El Pinacate is located in the northwest of Sonora state, 40 kilometers from the popular resort town of Puerto Peñasco, and is part of the Sonoran Desert, the largest desert in North America.

The region was declared a biosphere reserve by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1993, and 10 years later it was designated a World Heritage Site.

Many volcanic craters called maars, created when lava comes into contact with groundwater, are found in the reserve. They were formed between five million and 150,000 years ago.

Giant cacti are a feature of the reserve. Turismo Taruk

The crater called El Elegante, with a diameter of 1,600 meters and a depth of 200, is the reserve’s largest.

The park is a protected area for 560 plant species, as well as 40 species of mammals, 200 birds and 40 reptiles.

The reserve is home to some of the largest cactus species on the planet, such as the saguaro. Some specimens grow as tall as 20 meters and put down roots 30 meters below ground. They can weigh as much as 10 tonnes and absorb 9,000 liters of rainwater, and their lifespan is as long as 200 years.

The lava flows demarcate a vast shield volcano that extends over 20 kilometers in diameter. Hiking up the Mayo cone is the best way to observe the trails of hardened lava.

In the Gran Desierto de Altar, at the western end of the reserve, there are sand dunes as high as 200 meters.

It is believed that some of the first ethnic groups to inhabit North America lived in the El Pinacate region and petroglyphs of humans, animals and geometric shapes are found in the area.

Tour operators offer hikes up the dunes of the Gran Desierto de Altar and to the craters of El Pinacate. There are also campgrounds and a museum and visitor center. Entrance to the park costs 60 pesos (US $3).

Source: El Universal (sp)

Natural gas pipeline deal gives certainty to investors: Moody’s

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August 28, 2019

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Bartlett, left, and López Obrador applaud agreement with pipeline companies.

The rating agency Moody’s and business groups have applauded the agreement reached between the federal government and three pipeline companies, declaring that the deal gives certainty to investors.

President López Obrador announced on Tuesday that the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) had reached an accord with Carso, IEnova and TC Energy that will save the government US $4.5 billion.

Under the terms of the deal, Mexico will pay fixed fees to the companies to transport natural gas rather than ones that increase over time as stipulated in the previous contracts. On average, the CFE will pay the companies 28% less than they would have over a period of 25 years.

Moody’s analyst Roxana Muñoz said the agreement between the CFE and the pipeline companies is a “positive factor for the credit” of the latter because it brings certainty to their investments and ensure that the projects will continue to advance.

She said that even though a new tariff structure has been established and the length of the contracts between the CFE and the companies has been modified, “the return on investments won’t have a material impact.”

gas pipeline — Gas supply assured, business groups say.

Mexican Employers Federation president Gustavo de Hoyos said on Twitter that the private sector should be encouraged by the agreement, while the Confederation of Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco) said it represents “a great step towards the equitable development of Mexico” because the availability of gas and electricity are crucial to investment growth in the industrial sector.

Concanaco chief José Manuel López Campos said in a statement that once the three companies’ pipelines are in operation, gas supply in Mexico will be guaranteed.

He said he was particularly happy that the Texas-Tuxpan pipeline will be the first to open as a result of the new agreement, asserting that its operation will benefit the Yucatán peninsula and the southeast of the country the most.

“. . . By having more natural gas, their [industrial] processes will be less costly and they will compete with other regions of the country,” López said.

The Texas-Tuxpan line, completed by TC Energy and IEnova in June, will open next week, CFE director Manuel Bartlett said.

The US $2.5-billion pipeline will increase Mexico’s capacity to import cheap gas from the United States by about 40%.

Running mostly underwater across the Gulf of Mexico between Texas and Veracruz, the pipeline has the capacity to move 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.

Five other projects will be ready for operation at the midpoint of the government’s six-year term, Bartlett said.

The government has failed to reach a deal with Mexican company Fermaca, builder of the La Laguna-Aguascalientes and Villa de Reyes-Aguascalientes-Guadalajara pipelines, but López Obrador said that negotiations are ongoing.

“We’re still talking, we have to be patient . . . The disagreement is basically the issue of tariffs, [and] we look forward to an agreement soon.”

Source: Milenio (sp)

Thieves use pickup to tear ATMs out of Guanajuato bank

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August 28, 2019

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A dozen thieves used a pickup truck to yank two ATM machines from a bank in Celaya, Guanajuato, early Sunday.

A security camera caught the incident in which the thieves, dressed in black hoodies and wearing face masks, executed the robbery in just over seven minutes.

The footage shows the arrival of a black SUV and a grey pickup truck outside the ATM vestibule of an HSBC bank. Three men get out of the cars, one with a mallet, and proceeds to break the glass door open, while the driver puts the truck into position.

In the following moments more hooded men appear, five of whom enter the vestibule while others take chains out of the truck’s toolbox.

Meanwhile, others move across the street and to a nearby corner to watch for authorities.

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One of the men uses a stick to break the bank’s security cameras while others attach a chain between a machine and the pickup.

In approximately four minutes, they tear out the first ATM and load it into the bed of the truck.

Less than a minute later the second ATM has been yarded from its mountings and it too is loaded into the truck, following which the thieves pile into the pickup and four other vehicles and flee the scene, leaving a heap of broken glass and torn metal in the bank parking lot.

The movie-style robbery was not an isolated incident. A similar one occurred in a plaza near Celaya’s central bus station last week, but authorities were able to stop it before the thieves could finish the job.

Sources: AM (sp), Zona Franca (sp)

Sargassum season over in Quintana Roo, declares tourism agency

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August 28, 2019

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The Quintana Roo Tourism Promotion Council (CPTQ) has declared that the 2019 sargassum season is over.

The marketing agency made the claim in a report sent to Mexican and international business associates such as wholesale travel agencies and tour operators.

“Multiple reports confirm that the sargassum season has reached its end,” the CPTQ said after acknowledging that large quantities of the seaweed washed up on Quintana Roo beaches during the past two months.

The agency said that 83% of Caribbean coast beaches are currently either free of sargassum or only affected by small amounts of the macroalgae. It noted that the arrival of the seaweed typically begins to decrease in August.

The CPTQ also cited remarks by Governor Carlos Joaquín González that the sargassum season is coming to an end, which “allow us to assure both tourists and commercial partners of Quintana Roo that the beaches of the Mexican Caribbean are free of sargassum.”

Wednesday morning’s bulletin from the sargassum monitoring network.

It added that there is no evidence that there could be more arrivals of the seaweed.

Wednesday’s report from the Cancún sargassum monitoring network shows that just three beaches in the northern half of mainland Quintana Roo – Punta Piedra, Tulum Ruinas and Punta Cancún – are currently affected by excessive quantities of seaweed.

Three beaches on the northeast coast of Cozumel are also plagued by excessive quantities of sargassum.

The monitoring network’s map shows that 34 beaches are affected by low levels, 27 are affected by moderate amounts and 13 currently have abundant quantities of the seaweed on or near the shoreline.

Massive amounts of sargassum have washed up on Quintana Roo beaches this year, the first in which the navy was given responsibility for combating the problem that not only deters tourism but also poses environmental risks.

The CPTQ stressed, however, that not all beaches were affected, noting that even when some were plagued by large amounts of sargassum, many others remained in pristine condition.

The agency warned tourism sector stakeholders that many media outlets exaggerate the sargassum problem and recommended that they, and the public in general, stay informed about the situation via official channels of communication.

Source: El Economista (sp)

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