Date: December 16, 2018 at 17:53:55 From: Logan, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: The day after Tomorrow - Americans Crossing Mexican Border
Funny how no one thinks/talks about the wall keeping Americans in. They've burned the forests so can't hide there and then there's this wall to keep any from hiding down there.
A race for land is destroying the Guatemalan rainforest
Expansion of sugar exports, demand for palm oil, cattle farming and subsistence communities pushed off their traditional land produced the world's fastest rate of deforestation.
There are cows as far as the eye can see beside the road leading to the archaeological site of La Joyanca, in north-west Guatemala. Over the last 10 years, the primal forest has been cut down, replaced by grassland for intensive cattle farming. Here in the Petén region, around as well as inside the Laguna del Tigre National Park, agriculture is inexorably devouring the forest.
The process has been triggered incrementally in a series of seemingly minor steps. "At the end of the 1980s, when this zone was not yet a national park, Basic Petroleum obtained an oil exploration concession in the Laguna del Tigre area, in the heart of the forest," said Marco Cerezo, a Guatemalan environmentalist who founded FundaEco, a leading NGO dedicated to nature conservation and development. "Later, the oil companies asked for, and obtained, permission to build a road to their oil wells. And that is where the land clearing started, all along that road. Now approximately 40% of the national park has been cleared."
The same thing is happening across the Petén region, which extends across the northern half of the country to the border with Belize and Mexico. According to the latest report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) published at the end of 2010, Guatemala has experienced the most rapid deforestation of any country over the last five years.
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Date: December 16, 2018 at 14:47:37 From: Stardreamer So/Cal, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: The day after Tomorrow - Americans Crossing Mexican Border
Now and before plus this minute Mexico will not let anyone across the border.Unless you have your passport to show them at the Mexico border ...They cover them self s now and some years ago as well indeed.America pay attention this a different world ! Canada has always checked IDs and passwords now as well...