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Mexico’s Cancún-Riviera Maya clean beaches committee has approved an 848mn-peso (US$78.2mn) sustainable water management plan, dubbed Pamsa, southeastern Quintana Roo state’s environmental director Héctor Lizarraga told BNamericas.

Now that CPLCRM has approved Pamsa, it is defining an operational plan, under which each representative on the committee will propose to the Quintana Roo and federal governments the projects for funding from respective 2008 budgets, said Lizarraga, who works in the state’s urban development and environment ministry (Seduma).

Projects in the plan are divided into four areas, dealing with environmental education, infrastructure, sewerage and sanitation, solid waste and contamination, and water conservation, the state environmental director said.

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — She set out to expose a pedophile ring in Cancun, naming the rich and powerful she says were involved, and became a journalism sensation after she was abducted by police, allegedly at the behest of a state governor.

Lydia Cacho peered into Cancun’s underworld and came up with a stinging indictment not only of the alleged abusers, but of powerful friends and politicians she says did little or nothing to stop a prominent businessman accused of luring poor girls in the Caribbean resort to his home so that he and his friends could have sex with them.

Two years after the publication of her book “The Demons of Eden” in Mexico, Cacho’s fight against those who would silence her is now before Mexico’s Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, she collects a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation in New York — a tribute to her bravery in reporting on women’s and children’s rights.

Go to original by MORGAN LEE, Associated Press Writer Tue Oct 23, 3:27 AM ET

Remember Cancun is a website geared toward people who traveled to Cancun in its earlier days. It is a place for people to gather to share their photos from past trips and enjoy those of others. Currently its content is mainly geared toward the 1980s and early 1990s but earlier content is also welcome. In addition to the photo section there is also a forum and a blog. The blog area is really more a compilation of short stories and experiences from Cancun in the 1980s and 1990s.

Walking along Boulevard Kukulcan yesterday and looking at the reconstruction of another hotel, I recalled a study about cancer patients’ drawings. It analyzed drawings created by patients in advanced phases of the disease. These visual studies showed a marked flatness and lack of texture. Very little detail was included in the picture. Almost a threadbare view of the world, as that slips further away.

As each new hotel and condomium complex in Cancun nears completion, I look at the flat texture of the walls, the lack of detail. Later on, swirls and signs are added, but the poverty of design leaves one visually desolate.

Although there always is a glimmer of hope. When I stopped to photograph a crew in action, one of the welders waved to me and called “Hola, mi amor!” from atop the steel framework.

Rabbi Mendel Druk blows the Shofar in the Cancun Hotel Zone

Photograph by Anita Brown

Photograph by Anita Brown.

La Via Laktea, the Milky Way, consists of eight over-sized luxury cabañas on secluded Punta Piedra beach, about two hours south of the Cancun airport by car. A short drive from the world-famous Mayan ruins of Tulum, this boutique hotel nestles between the jungle and the Caribbean among dense palms and verdant tropical foliage right where the Sian Ka’an Biological Reserve begins. It is one of the few guest facilities on the almost undeveloped southern tip of the Rivieria Maya.

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Photograph by Anita Brown

Nautical neighbor wafts past my window in the evening.

Since Hurricane Dean, tourism has dipped in Quintana Roo, so the almost-empty boats float by at a whisper. Usually I know it’s almost 8:30 p.m. because strains — and the live band does strain — of tunes blow briefly into my living room.

The musicians valiantly race a second behind the beat of rock-and-roll oldies imprinted on my memory.

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Photograph by Elizabeth Ruiz

Según los expertos, es lo más adecuado para su conservación

Cuando un objeto metálico que estuvo mucho tiempo depositado en el mar es extraído, el hierro sufre grave deterioro y éste es el caso de los tres cañones del siglo XVIII hallados en la playa Paraíso, Quintana Roo, en la zona arqueológica de Tulum.

Tras consultar con expertos de las secciones de Restauración y Arqueología Subacuática del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia se determinó que lo más conveniente será devolverlos al mar en un sitio bajo control y donde se pueda monitorear su estado de conservación.

“La idea es que también puedan ser apreciados por los visitantes mediante el buceo y la colocación de señales adecuadas”, indica Adriana Velázquez Morlet, directora del Centro del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) de Quintana Roo.”
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