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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Sheinbaum Criticizes La Derecha Diario Following Cerimedo’s Arrest
La Derecha Diario uses bots, AI, and fake news to sway Latin American elections, Sheinbaum said after the arrest of co-founder Fernando Cerimedo, adding that Ricardo Salinas Pliego hired its operators.
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Arrest of Trump-linked Operator Reveals Seamy Underworld of Latin American Far Right – Soberanía 120
The arrest of operative Fernando Cerimedo exposes the far right’s CIA-linked web, the U.S. weaponizes visa cancellations against the left, and ICE brutalizes Mexican migrants.
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People’s Mañanera August 20
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Olinia, the strong peso, school funding, public service, audience rights, and disinformation networks.
