Posted on 06/05/2021 8:39:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The National Guard and Federal Police were dispatched Monday to an outlying section of the Teotihuacán archaeological site to seize land where illegal construction work has continued in recent months despite stop-work orders.
The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the Ministry of Culture said 250 National Guard troops and 60 agents of the Attorney General’s Office participated in an operation to seize two parcels of land in Oztoyahualco, an area of the México state site that is known as the “old city” because it is believed that the Teotihuacán settlement began there.
In March, INAH suspended projects being built on private land in the area, one of which is believed to be an amusement park, and in April it filed a complaint with the federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) against the illegal construction. The Culture Ministry also issued stop-work orders but construction work with heavy machinery continued, endangering at least 24 pre-Hispanic structures that haven’t been excavated.
INAH and the Culture Ministry said the FGR seized land in Oztoyahualco on Monday because the owners began construction work without authorization and caused “irreparable damage to the archaeological heritage of Mexico.”
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When I was much younger I visited Teotihuacan. Found some obsidian ‘razor blades’ in the rubble of the unexcavated parts. Still very sharp. Climbed both of the big pyramids. Maybe the most impressive part of the climb besides the incredible steepness of the steps were the kids at the top selling ice cold Cokes.
That would be challenging — both your climb, and the cold Cokes.
FRs I don’t have the tech stuff to do this. But American citizens are getting screwed in Mexico by the gangs and government see if you can find some examples and post em
Same here, 40 years ago when I was about 30 years old and in the best shape of my life. There were 200 steps on the Temple of the Sun, and each step was about 2 feet high. My dad pooped out at the first level half way up, but I zipped on up and made it to the top to take in the impressive view of the entire site. No kids selling Coke that day.
Coming down, however, was another issue. My legs were so tired from the climb, they were shaking like jelly all the way down. Took me forever to get to the bottom.
I was in a small border town in the Baha sitting at an outdoor café. I watched a Mexican cop stopping American licensed cars and demanding fifty bucks or, “I arrest you.” He was scaring the snot out of them. When I related this to the family I was staying with, one of them told me, approximately, “Americans that bring nice cars here are idiots. Any cop who likes your car can stop you and take it.” (Incidentally, at the time if you wanted to rent a car on the American side, you had to promise that you wouldn’t take it into Mexico. When I asked why the clerk said, “’Cause they can just take it.”)
The family I was staying with told me how some of them had gotten good jobs. They paid bribes. The best jobs were with the Electric company, the telephone company and the oil industry. The bribes cost accordingly.
Soda. The worst thing to drink in the hot sun/weather.
Shouldn't they be cancelled?
Alcohol is also a diuretic. Diuretics force water and nutrients out of the system and will leave you weak and dehydrated.
Coming down, however, was another issue. My legs were so tired from the climb, they were shaking like jelly all the way down.
What, no Chiclets?
I’m pretty sure this amusement park is financed by a drug cartel, which is why it took troops to (temporarily) stop its construction.
In the 1980s-1990s, when I was reading some of the magazines about living well in cheap places, Mexico was one of the top spots, as were some other places in Central America.
Guess that worked out then, but wouldn’t now.
If those kids had managed to get a Slurpee machine up there they could have made a large fortune.
As it is, I expect they cleaned up.
What, no Chiclets?
“The bribes cost accordingly.”
Every former Spanish colony is corrupt to this day. That’s how I got my driver’s license in the Philippines.
Last time I drove to Mexico I had to bribe two different sets of Mexican cops to get back into the U.S. That was the early 1980s.
The builders of Teotihuacan already got cancelled by whatever group of violent jackoffs followed them. It's the same all over, throughout history.
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