Police and members of the National Guard responded to reports of shots fired. Twitter
Gunmen fired shots after arriving at a popular Cancún beach by water on Tuesday, but no fatalities or injuries were reported.
Armed men traveled to Playa Langosta in the resort city’s hotel zone on three jet skis before opening fire. Some 20 shots were fired, according to witness accounts.
The gunmen escaped by water but their jet skis were later found and seized by authorities. According to a report by news website Expansión Política, the aggressors were targeting two people on the beach.
But a witness told the Associated Press they were shooting into the air rather than at the beach.
“There were two guys and maybe even a third, who came in on jet skis, and what I saw was them shooting up into the sky,” said Rick Lebassa, a tourist from Maine. “I did not see any shots coming in toward the shoreline.”
Quintana Roo police Chief Lucio Hernández said on Twitter that police, soldiers and members of the National Guard responded promptly to reports of the shooting.
“Thanks to their quick actions, there are no injured persons and the three jet skis on which the alleged perpetrators were traveling were seized. The search for said individuals is continuing,” he wrote.
The shooting occurred just a week after a new tourism security battalion of the National Guard began operating in the Riviera Maya, a coastal region of Quintana Roo that includes Cancún, Playa del Carmen and Tulum. Members of the National Guard were patrolling Playa Langosta before the incident, according to beachgoers.
“The National Guard was here for 10 or 15 minutes. They left and 15 minutes later the shooting began,” one woman said.
Among other recent incidents of violence in the Riviera Maya was an attack in a Tulum restaurant/bar in late October that claimed the lives of a German woman and an Indian woman.
Elena García has been dealing with the medication shortage since 2018.
Elena García attended meeting after meeting, hoping to secure medicine for her son Alex and other children like him who are fighting cancer. But the meetings always yielded the same result: no response and no deliveries of medication.
The meetings, with the Institute of Health for Well-Being (Insabi) in Mexico City, were far from her home in Oaxaca. Every trip cost approximately 1,000 pesos (US $50), no small amount for García and the organization she founded, Con Causa, which advocates for children with cancer and helps them find medication amid an ongoing shortage of oncological drugs.
After traveling to 10 meetings, García finally gave up due to lack of resources and lack of results.
“They were not responding to us. Not even one vial [of medicine] arrived. It makes more sense to be raising funds,” García said from outside the Mexico City International Airport, where she protested with other parents of children with cancer on Tuesday.
García said the medication shortage first affected her family in 2018. In order to pay for the treatments that the government couldn’t provide, the family began to sell their possessions. They sold the family car and later began organizing raffles to raise money for medicine.
Later, García founded Con Causa and was able to raise more money and buy medication for her son and many other children.
Currently, the publicly available medication covers about 35% of what is needed, García said. A little more is paid for by nonprofit associations like her own. She hopes that the airport protests will push authorities to finally take action.
In July, Insabi “guaranteed” that there would be enough medication for treatment across the country. But the shortages continued. Then in November, President López Obrador directed public health officials to resolve the issue “without excuses,” but that too failed to solve the problem.
Most recently, the president has confirmed that the military will take on the delivery of medications to reduce shortages caused by distribution problems.
A Zacatecas man accepts alms from a stranger. Shutterstock
Mexico is one of the most unequal countries in the world, according to a new report by a research laboratory dedicated to the study of inequality around the world.
The top 10% of income earners in Mexico earn over 30 times more than the bottom 50%, said the World Inequality Report 2022, completed by the World Inequality Lab.
The former earn 1.33 million pesos (US $63,750) per year on average while the latter make 42,700 pesos (US $2,040).
Just over 57% of all income goes to the top 10% of wage earners, the report said, while only 9.2% ends up in the pockets of the bottom 50%. About one-third of income goes to the middle 40% of wage earners while just over one-quarter goes to the top 1%.
“Unlike large European, Asian and North American economies, available data suggest that Mexico did not experience a strong reduction in inequality over the 20th century. In fact, income inequality in Mexico has been extreme throughout the past and present centuries,” the report said.
Mexico has a long history of income inequality, the report found. World Inequality Report 2022
“The top 10% income share has oscillated around 55-60% over that period, while the bottom 50% has been constant at around 8-10%, making of Mexico one of the most unequal countries on Earth.”
There is also significant gender inequality in the realm of labor income. Mexican women’s share of labor income is 33%, the report said, noting that the figure is below the Latin America average of 35% and only slightly higher than the 28% average in Sub-Saharan Africa. Women’s share of income is 39% in the United States and 38% in Canada, the United Kingdom and Western Europe.
While the figure for Mexico lags that of many countries, it has been on the rise, gaining almost 10 points since 1990.
With regard to household wealth, 46.9% is concentrated in Mexico’s richest 1% and 78.7% in the richest 10%. The share of wealth of the poorest 50% is -0.2%, the report said. Their share is negative because the value of their debt exceeds the value of their assets.
Average household wealth across the population is 833,660 pesos (US $39,800), while the richest 10% have assets worth 6.56 million pesos (US $313,500) on average.
The report also said that “carbon inequalities” are very high in Mexico. The poorest 50% of the population are responsible for the emission of fewer than two tonnes of carbon dioxide per person per year, while the richest 10% are responsible for 20 tonnes per capita, or more than 10 times more.
Mexico scored below the Latin American average for gender income inequality. World Inequality Report 2022
“These levels of inequalities are significantly higher than in Brazil (where the top 10% of the population emit eight times more than the bottom 50%) and comparable with China,” the report said.
While Mexico is one of the world’s most unequal countries, the most unequal region is the Middle East and North Africa, the report said. The second most unequal region is Sub-Saharan Africa while Latin America has the third highest levels of inequality. The most equal region is Europe followed by East Asia and North America (excluding Mexico).
The report said that inequality has increased within most countries over the past two decades but global inequalities between countries have declined.
“… This sharp rise in within country inequalities has meant that despite economic catch-up and strong growth in the emerging countries, the world remains particularly unequal today,” it said.
A contraband-sniffing dog checking items at Toluca International Airport.
More than 2,700 customs agents have been dismissed for corruption since the current government took office in late 2018, but none has been formally charged or taken into custody.
Customs chief Horacio Duarte told a press conference at Mexico City airport on Tuesday that 2,712 customs agents have been fired during the past three years and 39 formal criminal complaints have been filed with the federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
“[But] as far as I know, there are no detainees,” he said.
Duarte, who became customs chief in April last year, said he was unaware what progress the FGR had made with its investigations into the 39 criminal complaints filed against customs agents.
“… We file the complaints and then it’s up to … the FGR to carry out the procedural activities to determine the responsibility … of the officials,” he said.
Duarte noted that the bank accounts of 12 customs administrators were frozen after the government’s Financial Intelligence Unit detected suspicious transactions but said he didn’t know whether any further action had been taken against them.
He conceded that many customs agents are in cahoots with organized crime, but emphasized that seizures of fentanyl, weapons and cartridges have all increased.
The main reason for Duarte’s appearance at the airport was to announce that Mexico would implement the World Customs Organization’s anti-corruption and integrity promotion program.
He said that corruption has a corrosive effect on entire countries and their institutions, noting that it results in the diversion of public resources that could have otherwise been allocated to development and the provision of basic services.
“Added to this, corruption weakens the public perception of governments, favors the development of organized crime, generates a sentiment of iniquity … and in economic terms discourages foreign investment. In a nutshell, corruption undermines democracy and public life,” Duarte said.
“In this context, the government of Mexico, and customs in particular, have sent a clear message of zero corruption and zero impunity,” he said — even though the punishment of corrupt customs agents doesn’t go beyond the loss of their jobs.
Zapotecs call themselves Binnizá, which in their language means Cloud People. Government of Mexico
Long ago, legend says, a shepherd found a wild lily growing in what today is San Agustín de las Juntas, a settlement near Oaxaca city’s airport. When digging to collect the flower by its root, he discovered the head of Donají, a Zapotec princess. This beautiful, decapitated, royal head is today the city’s official emblem.
This foundational story is exemplary of Oaxaca, a magical land inhabited by magical people, where the geographies of language and biodiversity intertwine, enveloping and nourishing one other over millennia.
These all evolve together while sharing the same spaces and the same challenges — animate and inanimate — that humanity faces today in its efforts to save our blue planet. It’s a human-nature communion so profound that the Zapotecs here — the Cloud People, as they call themselves — believed that they descended from rocks, trees and jaguars.
I have no doubt that was the case.
Oaxaca’s land is the cosmic daughter of a complex geological history. That history has sculpted archetypal symbols on its topography and on the minds of its people, shaping a limitless range of landscapes — from the Pacific coast and through dry tropical forest; through scrublands, temperate pine and oak forests; and into the triumphant ascent into the cloud forests of the Cerro Nube (Cloud Hill) at 3,720 meters above sea level.
An oil rendering by artist Isis Rodriguez of the image of Donají, the beheaded Zapotec princess who is featured on Oaxaca city’s coat of arms. City of Oaxaca
It is the land of the Mixtec princes Tres Pedernal, the incarnation of the values of Mexico’s indigenous women. It is the land in which Los Chimalapas lies — that breathtaking half a million hectare home of Mexico’s last remaining intact tropical forest, which unfurls across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Oaxaca is the exquisite outcome of an assortment of natural blessings that have encouraged adaptive radiation (i.e., rapid evolutionary species diversification), speciation (when nature creates a new offshoot species) and an extraordinary mix of flora and fauna that has blended elegantly with indigenous peoples and languages.
The state’s name comes from huaxyácac (“in the nose of the guaje plants” in the Náhuatl language), a native tree with white flowers and red and green pods (the three colors of the Mexican flag, before that flag even existed) that conceal tasty seeds.
Centuries ago, when the Spaniards arrived, they called this land Guajaca, Segura de la Frontera, Tepeaca and Antequera; but the Náhuatl won over the Spanish, and today it continues to be proudly called Oaxaca.
For over 10,000 years, a wide variety of indigenous peoples have spread and flourished in these diverse environments: the Zapotec, Mixtec, Mazatec, Mixe, Zoque, and many more, as well as Afro-Mexicans, mestizos and Spanish thriving together on this tricolor nose of guajes.
Today, more than 4,000 indigenous communities in Oaxaca speak 157 languages, making up 43% of Mexico’s languages. More than 8,400 species of plants (40% of all the plants in Mexico) and 4,500 species of animals (half of the country’s vertebrates and 19% of its invertebrates), make Oaxaca Mexico’s most bioculturally diverse (meaning both highly biologically and culturally diverse) state.
This is why Oaxaca is a biocultural planetary treasure.
It’s also why there exists no gastronomy like Oaxaca’s: seven multicolored moles, rock broth, Ixtaltepec wedding stew, large and crunchy tlayudas, tamales, the hearty beef and bean soup caldo de gato, chapulines (grasshopers), escamoles (ant larvae), maguey worms, chicatanas (ants), chiles stuffed with sardines, the sweet treat nenguanitos, the ancestral drink pozonque and Oaxaca’s version of the tostada known as memelas.
And, to appease everyone’s alcoholic and nonalcoholic thirst, Oaxaca offers 77 traditional elixirs, including mezcal (such as Amores, my favorite), tepache, aguardiente, popo, pulque, champurrado, bu’pu, and pinole.
Oaxaca is divided into 570 municipalities, of which 418 are ruled by the “uses and customs,” an autochthone form of self-governance. Towns such as Espinal, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Juchitán, Puerto Escondido, Huatulco, Mitla, San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, San Pedro Pochutla, San Bartolo Coyotepec, Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz and Teotitlán (meaning among the houses of God in Náhuatl) de Flores Magón blow the minds of all travelers.
Oaxaca is so desirable that even the souls of those who die, longing for their homeland, choose to hang around after their bodies have long gone. Each November 2, on the Day of the Dead, the souls of all those who were born in Oaxaca and passed away — including its most famous artists, presidents, dictators and anarchist journalists — wander the graveyards and streets and may reveal themselves to the living, but only the living who believe.
If you find yourself in Oaxaca city on that day and you walk the streets at night, you may encounter the souls of Oaxaca’s two most celebrated and loved Zapotec painters: Francisco Toledo (and his magical erotic animals), who succeeded in preventing a McDonald’s from opening on the capital’s zócalo; and Rufino Tamayo, whom you will see carrying his mural Day and Night, which symbolizes the struggle between daytime (the feathered serpent) and nighttime (the tiger).
Or you may find the souls of the writers, José Vasconcelos and Andrés Henestrosa; but they will reveal themselves only if you have read at least one of their books.
Whether you like their music and voices or not, you will certainly encounter the souls of violinist-pianist Macedonio Alcalá performing his waltz and Oaxaca’s de facto anthem, “Dios Nunca Muere” (God never dies), and Álvaro Carrillo, Chuy Rasgado and José López Alavés singing “Sabor a Mí,” “Naela” or “Canción Mixteca,” an ode to all Mexico’s migrants.
And if you care about the rights of indigenous peoples, you may meet the soul of Benito Juárez, Benemérito de las Americas. Born in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, to Zapotec parents, as president of Mexico he fought for the best causes, including separation between church and state, freedom of the press and the subordination of the army to civil authority — causes for which we Mexicans continue to fight hard even today.
And if you are one of those willing to take risks, you might also wander, preferably at midnight, by Cerro del Fortín. There you may have the opportunity to confront, face to face, the soul of Porfirio Díaz — the politician, soldier and president-turned-dictator. For 30 years and 105 days, he ruled Mexico.
No doubt, however, General Díaz will be in a rush, being chased by his fierce opponents, the souls of the three Flores Magón brothers — fomenters of the Mexican Revolution who would be loudly heralding their anarchist newspaper Regeneration.
But if you chose to only walk near Santo Domingo — that matchless baroque temple built by persevering Dominican priests in the mid-16th century — try hard to listen to the song La Llorona that tells the sad story of the young Zapotec man in love, saying farewell to his wife, who cried despairingly when her beloved husband was swept away to his death by the winds of the Mexican Revolution.
A work of art from Oaxaca city’s annual Night of the Radishes. Alejandro Linares García/Creative Commons
But if you are really lucky, you might also have the chance to listen to Oaxaca’s five living hummingbirds — Lila Downs, Natalia Cruz, Martha Toledo, Alejandra Robles and Susana Harp.
All this is true, although you may choose not to believe it.
And, if you wish to see the universe in motion, come to Oaxaca on July 16 and stay the two Mondays after. Those are Los Lunes del Cerro (Mondays on the Hill) — pre-Hispanic rituals worshiping the goddess and protector of maize.
Centuries ago, these rituals culminated with the sacrifice of a damsel representing the goddess, rituals that many years later turned into the Guelaguetza, a Zapotec festival thanking the agriculture gods for the harvest, and in which all people, rich and poor, participate without any class distinctions.
The Guelaguetza ends with the Dance of the Feather, in which the principal dancer (the sun) moves in circles to talk to other dancers (the celestial bodies) with diagonal movements representing the winter solstice and parallel movements representing the spring equinox. As I have told you, the cosmos is moving.
Thirty-three years ago, on December 23, 1988, I visited Oaxaca for the first time. That night was the Noche de Rábanos (Night of the Radishes), when local artists display figures that they have lovingly carved from leviathan radishes.
Lila Downs - La Llorona
Lila Downs, who is from Oaxaca, has recorded songs in Zapotec and Mixtec.
It seems like yesterday that I wandered through the streets of Oaxaca de Juárez, young and alone while devouring with heart and soul a myriad of colorful animals, humans, houses and countless other exquisite forms carved out of beautiful specimens of Raphanus sativus, offered to me as gifts by artists I did not know.
It seems like yesterday that I found refuge in a cold and somber church, comfortably sitting near a bowl filled with holy water and realizing that I had just arrived in the most magical place on Earth.
• Respectfully dedicated to Josefina and other Zapotec women of white heads and rebellious hearts who initiated me into the magic of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and whose distant relatives lived there 10,000 years ago.
Omar Vidal, a scientist, was a university professor in Mexico, is a former senior officer at the UN Environment Program and the former director-general of the World Wildlife Fund-Mexico.
There have been more than 2,500 homicides in the state this year.
Guerrero got a new federal security plan in October, Zacatecas got one in November, and now Baja California is to become the third state in as many months to qualify for reinforced security efforts.
President López Obrador said Monday that he will travel to Tijuana – Mexico’s most violent city – on Saturday to address security issues in the northern border state, where more than 2,500 homicides were recorded in the first 10 months of the year.
Cells of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are engaged in a turf war over drug dealing locations in Tijuana and other cities, according to state security officials who spoke with the newspaper Milenio.
They’re fighting for the streets and corners of different neighborhoods, the unnamed officials said, naming Sánchez Taboada – which has been described as the most dangerous neighborhood in Tijuana – as a hotspot.
“It’s an issue of narcomenudeo [small-scale drug trafficking] on [street] corners,” one official said.
The competing cartel cells are mainly selling methamphetamine on the streets, the officials said, although drugs such as cocaine and heroin are also available. They also said that more than 1,000 sicarios, or cartel hitmen, have been arrested in Baja California since 2019.
A man believed to be the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel in Tijuana and considered one of the main instigators of violence in the city was arrested in September, but the violence goes on.
The officials told Milenio that different criminal cells dominate different parts of Tijuana. They noted that drug dealers sometimes change allegiances and start working for a different “criminal company.”
“That’s why they kill them,” they said, adding that members of the Arellano-Félix organization, also known as the Tijuana Cartel, work with both the CJNG and the Sinaloa Cartel.
The federal government deployed additional soldiers and members of the National Guard to Guerrero and Zacatecas to stem violence in those states.
Homicides declined in the first three municipalities in the three months between August and October compared to the same period of 2020, according to official data, but increased in Mexicali. Still, much more needs to be done to pacify the state.
Details about the government’s security plan are expected to be announced at a press conference on Saturday.
“We’re going … to Baja California [to deal with] the security issue and we’ll report [from] there,” López Obrador told his Monday morning press conference.
The port of Coatzacoalcos, from which Corona and other beer could be shipped to the US market.
A United States company that brews Corona and other Mexican beers for sale in the U.S. will build a new brewery in Veracruz, according to Governor Cuitláhuac García.
Constellation Brands, whose $1.4 billion nearly-completed brewery project in Mexicali, Baja California, was halted by the federal government after a referendum in March 2020, is expected to announce the new brewery project with President López Obrador as soon as this week, said a person familiar with the plans.
The plant, estimated to cost $1.3 billion, will probably be built in the trans-isthmus trade corridor, a region in Oaxaca and Veracruz where infrastructure upgrades are under way to encourage industrial development, the Veracruz governor said.
Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier recently told federal lawmakers that Constellation was planning a large investment in Veracruz, where it would be able to access the significant quantities of water required to make beer on an industrial scale.
Governor García said earlier this year that the company was looking at options near the port city of Coatzacoalcos. From there, the United States third largest beer producer could transport beer to U.S. Gulf of Mexico ports by ship.
The unfinished brewery in Mexicali.
The company’s decision to build a new brewery in Mexico is a big win for López Obrador, whose government has not attracted large new investments from foreign companies.
The plan would be especially pleasing for the president, a Tabasco native, given that he has pledged to spur economic development in what he describes as the long-neglected southeast and repeatedly said that the region would be ideal for a brewery, given the availability of water. Three of his signature infrastructure projects – the Maya Train, the Dos Bocas oil refinery and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec trade corridor – are being built in southern and southeastern states.
Constellation’s decision is the culmination of protracted negotiations between company executives, senior federal officials and local authorities, the Wall Street Journal said.
After last year’s referendum on the Mexicali project, in which just over three-quarters of participants voted against it mainly due to concerns it would threaten the local water supply, Constellation chose to negotiate with federal officials rather than take the case to an international arbitration panel, a government source said.
The unnamed person told the WSJ that locating the brewery in the tropical southeast will ensure that water supply is not a problem and guarantees the support of local residents because of López Obrador’s strong links to the region.
But operating so far from the Mexico-U.S. border will increase Constellation’s costs, the WSJ reported. In addition, Mexico’s southeast lacks sufficient road and transportation infrastructure, gas and energy supplies, the newspaper noted.
Constellation, which also brews beers such as Modelo Especial, Victoria and Pacífico, already operates a large, state-of-the-art brewery in Nava, Coahuila, located across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas.
The company bought Grupo Modelo’s U.S. beer business in 2013 and has invested $9 billion in it. Constellation has annual sales of over $8.5 billion, and its Mexican beer portfolio generates a significant portion of its revenue.
Damage from Monday night's blast at an illegal fireworks maker.
An explosion at a home-based, illegal fireworks factory killed six people and injured nine Monday night in Puebla.
It was the second such incident in two days. One person was killed and six people were injured under similar circumstances on Sunday when gunpowder exploded at an illegal fireworks operation in Juan C. Bonilla.
Monday’s blast took place in the community of Santiago Tenango in Felipe Ángeles. Two of the dead were children aged 13 and 15. Only two of those who were injured required hospitalization but one, a 13-year-old girl, was reported in grave condition Tuesday morning with second-degree burns.
At least six homes were also severely damaged in the blast, which took place about 7:30 p.m.
Puebla Governor Miguel Barbosa confirmed that the incident took place in an unlicensed fireworks factory and ordered officials to carry out inspections of fireworks makers throughout the state to identify those that are operating without permits from the Ministry of National Defense.
Fireworks is a big business in some parts of Mexico and this is a busy time of year for manufacturers. And explosions are not uncommon.
What was probably the worst incident killed 46 people in Tultepec, México state, in 2016 when several explosions ripped through and destroyed Mexico’s biggest fireworks market.
The market itself was legal but regulations controlling the distance between individual vendors’ stands had been relaxed. Officials concluded at the time that the damage would have been less severe had the regulations been enforced.
People aged 60 and over will be given AstraZeneca COVID-19 booster shots regardless of the vaccine with which they were first inoculated, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell said Tuesday.
Speaking at President López Obrador’s regular news conference, the coronavirus czar said that seniors must have been vaccinated before June to be eligible for a booster shot. The vast majority of seniors were vaccinated before the start of that month, he said.
People aged 60 or over who were vaccinated more recently will have to wait for six months after their second dose before they can receive an additional shot, López-Gatell said.
The rollout of booster shots begins Tuesday in Mexico City, Jalisco, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Sinaloa and Yucatán. In the capital, seniors who live in the southern borough of Tlalpan will be the first to get a third shot.
López Obrador, who had COVID in January, and other federal officials aged 60 and over received their boosters at the president’s news conference, held in Zapopan, Jalisco.
Seniors are not required to register for a third shot, as was the case with their initial vaccination. They simply have to go to a vaccination center and show official identification to prove their age, López-Gatell said.
Authorities will announce the location of the vaccination centers and the dates on which they will be offering booster shots on a state by state basis.
Teachers, who were among the first Mexicans to be vaccinated, will also be offered booster shots after they have been made available to seniors. Most teachers were vaccinated with the single-shot CanSino vaccine.
Meanwhile, Mexico’s accumulated coronavirus case tally currently stands at just over 3.9 million after 752 new infections were reported Monday. The country’s first case of the highly mutated omicron variant was detected last Friday but no additional cases have been reported.
The Health Ministry reported 110 additional COVID-19 fatalities on Monday, lifting the official death toll to 295,313.
Calle Morelos clearly marks the boundary between two municipalities.
The urban area formed by the municipalities of Tampico and Ciudad Madero in Tamaulipas has a unique new boundary marker: a half-paved road.
While residents on the Ciudad Madero side of Calle Morelos have a newly paved lane, their neighbors in Tampico are still driving on unpaved dirt, a situation that has been mocked and criticized on social media.
Luis Carlos Leal Contreras, director of public works in Ciudad Madero, said the paving project began cooperatively, but when Tampico ran out of resources, Ciudad Madero decided to go ahead and finish its half of the street as planned.
But the Tampico director of public works, Pedro Pablo Rangel, tells a slightly different tale.
“When it became known that Ciudad Madero was going to pave Calle Morelos, I approached Luis Carlos Leal Contreras and I invited them to work together, half and half, but they didn’t want to … what they did is absurd, they are doing things badly,” Rangel said, adding that paving only half the street will cause future problems with uneven compaction.
A Tampico councilor who sits on the public works commission has called for a meeting to review the project status.
“It is not Madero’s responsibility anymore if it is affecting neighbors on our side,” Mayra Ojeda said.
Ciudad Madero Mayor Adrián Oseguera later explained that his city had no choice but to go ahead with the paving project because the funds had already been approved by the municipal council.
Oseguera said he has a good working relationship with the mayor of Tampico, and the Tampico side of the project will be completed in 2022.
“There is excellent coordination between my friend [Tampico Mayor Jesús Nader] and me and the public works directors,” Oseguera said.
He urged Calle Morelos residents not to lose hope, and assured them that the project would indeed be completed.
“What happened is that we had already approved it and the neighbors insisted we do it, but there is good communication and it is not the only street we will [pave] with Tampico,” Oseguera said.
