Mexico: Grupo México is refusing to pay for Sonora River Cleanup

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28
PROGRAM #11252 12:00 PM PT

Mexico Edition. 

Twelve years after the worst environmental disaster in Mexican mining history, the corporate conglomerate Grupo México is refusing to pay the 500 million dollars agreed upon with the federal government to clean up the Sonora River and remediate the damage from the toxic spill to riverside communities. Additionally, in the face of threats from organized crime against avocado growers in Michoacán, the United States suspended — and then resumed — its avocado imports after the Mexican government deployed hundreds of military personnel to the area. Political analysts weigh in on these and other topics.

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