Cancun DragonMart Threatens Lawsuits Against Environmental Activists Sylvia Lahoma Ponce de Leon - The Yucatan Times
go to original December 22, 2012

Dragon Mart Cancun (Maickol Tamayo)

Juan Carlos López Rodríguez, the general manager and legal representative of the company Real Estate DragonMart Cancun threatened to the environmental organizations and civil societies to sue them, if they persist in denouncing the environmental, social and economic damage by building one of the world’s largest Chinese commercial complexes in the municipality in Benito Juarez, Quintana Roo.

Rodriguez Lopez sent a letter to the general director of the Mexican Center of Environmental Rights (CEMDA in Spanish), Gustavo Alanis Ortega. In the communication Rodriguez threatens to take legal action against the organization if they do not stop the “attacks” on the project.

Dragon Mart is predicted to be the center of the largest Chinese business in the American Continent.

Rodriguez Lopez demanded that the “defaming” and “discrediting” of the company stop, otherwise, he warned he will act “according to law” against these organizations.

According to the organizations, construction and opening of the Dragon Mart will impact inevitably the ecosystem, commerce and the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living in and around that region.

On December 12, Deputy Luz Maria Beristain and David Monreal Avila asked the Senate to require the Governor of Quintana Roo, Roberto Borge Angulo, to report in detail about the project within less than 30 days.

The opposition against the DragonMart project denounced a large number of irregularities and opacity, concerning the amount of investment, project reach, the business plan and the environmental and social impact it will have on the region. These factors amount to a vital importance to the regional economy, including primarily the Yucatan peninsula and states surrounding it. Building plans show an area of 126,639 square meters of construction to be finalized and inaugurated in 2014.

The representative of Dragon Mart Cancun argues that the corporation’s developers and designers reject that construction will cause environmental impacts, also accusing  Juan Carlos López Rodríguez of orchestrating a “legal, political and media strategy ” tending to defame and discredit his person and the corporation. These allegations, he adds, “are inaccurate, false and slanderous and jeopardize not only the project, but the integrity of those who participate in it.”

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