Return of 500 Species of Fauna and Flora to Lake Texcoco Shows the Importance of Not Having Built the NAICM: Sheinbaum
This article by Alma E. Muñoz and Alonso Urrutia originally appeared in the July 10, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
Mexico City. Amid the return of 500 species of fauna and flora to Lake Texcoco, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reaffirmed the importance of not having built the Mexico City International Airport in that area, because it would be flooded. “Texcoco is a regulating reservoir because of the amount of water that falls in the Valley of Mexico,” and had it been built there, all the water we now see would have had to be drained, in addition to the fact that “that area is sinking because of the extraction from the wells around it.”
Just imagine, she said at the mañanera, “rain plus land subsidence, so, more water storage capacity. Technically, engineering can solve anything, but permanently draining the water was going to be extremely expensive and, moreover, it was not clear where they were going to take it.” She stressed that it was not the best location for the city’s airport, with a real estate development that would generate “a lot of urban pressure,” as Vicente Fox and Enrique Peña Nieto intended.
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People’s Mañanera October 21
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Pemex, fuel theft, Jalisco’s water crisis, missing persons, and the lie detector.
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Jáuregui’s Arrest Does Not Close the CIA Case in Chihuahua; Morena Demands Broader Investigations
Morena leader Ariadna Montiel holds Governor Maru Campos politically responsible and says ex-prosecutor Guillermo Zuany must also face justice.
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Morena Accuses Violation of the Secular State Over Award Ceremony for Evangelicals in the Chamber of Deputies
A representative of Israel’s embassy attended the PRI-hosted event, and the group’s founder was arrested in the U.S. for drug trafficking in 2007, Morena deputies said.
