Political friction over tehuantepec isthmus funding - Poderlatam Chronicle

The Interoceanic Corridor of theIsthmusofTehuantepec(CIIT) is a multimodal logistics platform designed to promote well-being and regional development across its area of influence, which includes the states of Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Chiapas. This initiative is implemented through coordination among the National Port System Administrations of Coatzacoalcos, Salina Cruz, Dos Bocas ...

Balanced development We are talking about the long-awaited project of the "Interoceanic Corridor of theIsthmusofTehuantepec," whose mission is to contribute to the development of the region and lay the foundations for comprehensive, sustainable, and inclusive development. A project of transversal vision and structural change that interrupts the long histori of Mexico as a country governed ...

Claudia Sheinbaum will be sworn in as Mexico's first female president on October 1 with a broad electoral mandate. Before entering politics, she was a scientist studying renewable energy, including the ongoing conflictoverwind farms on theIsthmusofTehuantepec. The tensions have spawned deadly violence, and lawsuits from Oaxaca City to Paris.

Theisthmushas undergone a radical transformationoverthe last several decades. In 1994, the state-owned CFE utility started a trend of building wind farms in the area; in 2008, Spanish company Iberdrola built Mexico's first private wind farm nearby. Now there are more than 2,000 turbines in the region.

The southernIsthmusofTehuantepecis one of the windiest places on Earth and the scene of a large-scale wind energy development plan conceived by the Mexican government in conjunction with multinational companies. We analyze the national wind energy development policy, and the negotiation processes, alliances and popular local indigenous resistance created by what is known as theIsthmusof ...

Since 2019, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his government started to develop the Mexican alternative to the Panama Canal: the Interoceanic Corridor of theIsthmusofTehuantepec. Beyond the offer to connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans through railroads, Mexico offers a nearshoring model for international companies in territories inhabited by Indigenous communities and rich in ...

In September 2017, the strongest earthquake in the last century shook theIsthmusofTehuantepec, Mexico, the region hosting the largest concentration of wind turbines in Mexico. In the municipalities withover1600 wind turbines, the seismic shock affected 70% of the dwellings. After the disaster, community organisations undertook efforts to foster collective processes of territorial autonomy ...

There can be no development while there is poverty and marginalisation in our communities, nor a lack of health and education infrastructure, and there can no be development while our rights are being violated". The situation inIsthmusofTehuantepec, and the fate of the communities that inhabit it, will continue to be worrying.

Mexico is building an interoceanic corridor in theIsthmusofTehuantepecto connect the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. This 300-kilometer project, a potential Panama Canal rival, is causing both excitement and controversy. Conceived in the 16th century, it's now being pushed forward by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's government, which has invested $2.85 billion. The corridor is ...