Cancun Today

Mexico’s Cancún-Riviera Maya clean beaches committee has approved an 848mn-peso (US$78.2mn) sustainable water management plan, dubbed Pamsa, southeastern Quintana Roo state’s environmental director Héctor Lizarraga told BNamericas.

Now that CPLCRM has approved Pamsa, it is defining an operational plan, under which each representative on the committee will propose to the Quintana Roo and federal governments the projects for funding from respective 2008 budgets, said Lizarraga, who works in the state’s urban development and environment ministry (Seduma).

Projects in the plan are divided into four areas, dealing with environmental education, infrastructure, sewerage and sanitation, solid waste and contamination, and water conservation, the state environmental director said.

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — She set out to expose a pedophile ring in Cancun, naming the rich and powerful she says were involved, and became a journalism sensation after she was abducted by police, allegedly at the behest of a state governor.

Lydia Cacho peered into Cancun’s underworld and came up with a stinging indictment not only of the alleged abusers, but of powerful friends and politicians she says did little or nothing to stop a prominent businessman accused of luring poor girls in the Caribbean resort to his home so that he and his friends could have sex with them.

Two years after the publication of her book “The Demons of Eden” in Mexico, Cacho’s fight against those who would silence her is now before Mexico’s Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, she collects a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation in New York — a tribute to her bravery in reporting on women’s and children’s rights.

Go to original by MORGAN LEE, Associated Press Writer Tue Oct 23, 3:27 AM ET