Soy periodista de México Desconocido y estoy muy interesado en el tema de la migración libanesa en México por lo que me gustaría contactar a la autora de este ensayo sobre el tema : María Teresa Cuevas Seba.
Ojalá me puedan ayudar mandandome sus datos porfavor.
Muchas gracias.

Un cordial saludo.

Translation:
Dear friends
I’m a journalist at Mexico Desconocido and I’m very interested in the Lebanese immigration to Mexico. I would like to contact the author of this essay: Maria Teresa Cuevas Seba. I hope you can send me her contact information please.
Thanks!

On one hand, more cruise ships mean more income for Progreso. And that income has been sorely missed in many families, On the other hand, more cruise ships mean more raw sewage and plastics dumped directly into the ocean. Cruise ships are some of the worst polluters of the seas.

On one hand, better lighting for the carretara means more safety for bicyclists and pedestrians (some of the poorest residents of Yucatan in many cases) and more safety for slow trucks and all drivers, On the other hand, bright lights disrupt the migrations of birds as well as the lives of plants and animals not evolved to live with 24-hour illumination.

On one hand, bulldozing 8000 hectares of land will undoubtedly bring some jobs, perhaps many jobs, to Quintana Roo. The state is already famous for enticing people from across all of Mexico with the prospect of wonderful jobs. The lack of worker housing with proper sewage, fresh water, and sanitation (trash pickup) is not so well known. So, another 8000 hectares of jobs, and how many more for the workers to live? Undoubtedly, they will carve more space out of the jungle as it is.

ooops…. I forgot the other hand. Well, it is plain to see that, aside from a certain number of service jobs and surely vasts profits for a couple landowners, this project has little to offer. Destruction of the jungle on such a wide scale will lead to water fouling, beach pollution and erosion, trash heaps and loss of habitat.

Concerned people anywhere in the world certainly have a right to express their opinions. Thankfully, this article provides addresses for the delivery of those opinions.

Aside from concern about “foreigners meddling in Mexico’s affairs,” Yucatan Dreamer may be interested to know that there are many foreigners who have become Mexican citizens with full rights of expression, including politics. Mexicans themselves, along with the rest of the world, are visitors to this website.

We’ll keep dreaming that somehow a balance is found between providing livelihoods for a burgeoning population and destruction of the very foundation of the attraction of Mexico to tourists: the wonderful environmental treasures that are Mexico’s to preserve or to destroy.

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* I took a break to figure it out: 8,000 hectares (metric land measure) = 19,768.4 acres. That works out to well over 30 square miles of destroyed jungle. Worth it?

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As concerned citizens of this environmentally endangered planet, we all have a moral duty to ask that all people everywhere do the best they can to avoid further damage to the environment.

In that capacity, and as taxpayers and property owners, as well as tourists bringing significant income into Mexico, we also have the right to ask the President of Mexico to reconsider funding projects that will destroy the natural resources of this country.

The line would, however, be crossed if we added an “or else” threat to that request. We would never do such a thing, but feel it is our duty to not remain silent while huge sections of natural beauty are lost to our adopted country and our planet forever.

-Khaki and the Working Gringos