Dragon Mart is the second largest Chinese project in the world after Dubai, with an initial investment of approximately 200 million dollars that contemplates the creation of the Chinese Product Distribution Center (MDCCC), which will be in charge of to move Chinese merchandise throughout Latin America.
Located three kilometers from the coast, 18 km south of Cancun, nine km from the airport and 11 km from the Municipality of Puerto Morelos, of which it will be a part. It will be developed in a perimeter of 100 hectares; Of the million square meters, 255,000 are for GFA, 100,000 for the commercial area, 90,000 for a hotel and apartment buildings, 20,000 for homes, and 45,000 square meters for storage area. Seeking to be the spearhead for Chinese products, of dubious quality, in Latin America.
All this under the protection of influence peddling by PAN businessmen linked to the Presidency of the Republic and the simulated dispossession by local businessmen and politicians of hundreds of hectares from ejidatarios of the municipality of Puerto Morelos and a future devastation of the mangrove and the reef before the foreseeable expansion of the pier to receive multimodal freighters.
And as if the damage caused to the ecosystem were not enough, the arrival of more than 2,500 Chinese merchants who will live inside the Dragon Mart complex is expected; Experience indicates that over the years they will bring relatives, wives and children, which will result in a population center of approximately 100,000 Chinese, which will make up the first Chinatown in the Mexican Caribbean, similar to Chinatown in Mexico City. or Chinatown in Los Angeles, California, whose main characteristics are inbreeding and resistance to integrate into the host culture, causing a cultural stain that could affect the area’s national traditions and beliefs.
The bases of the eastern project were established by former governor Félix González Canto, dating back to 2007 when land owned by the Quintana Roo government was expropriated and sold to the project. It was not until March 22, 2011 when the agreement was legally signed by the now PRI senator González Canto and the president of Chinamex and Dragon Mart Cancun, Hao Feng.
And although the project should have been completed by the end of this year, construction just began in September and it will be completed in December 2013. One of the reasons, according to those involved in the Dragon Mart project, is that the representative of the mega company was the Chinese-Mexican businessman, Zhen Li Ye Gon, prosecuted in the United States for the manufacture of synthetic drugs, for which his judicial fate caused agreements and permits to be delayed.
«Voces Unidas de Puerto Morelos» seeks to revoke licenses to Dragon Mart
Neighbors of Puerto Morelos, supported by five environmental groups, sent a letter to President Felipe Calderón to demand the revocation of an Environmental Impact Statement issued by the Quintana Roo Environmental Impact and Risk Institute for the Dragon Mart project in the vicinity of this city.
Rosa Eloísa Rodríguez, from the Voces Unidas association of Puerto Morelos, reported that the plaza project planned by Chinese and Mexican businessmen implies a violation of environmental regulations and international treaties signed by Mexico.
Among others, they mention Agenda 21, the Declaration on Forests, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Sea and the World Program for the Protection of the Marine Environment against Activities carried out on Land.
For the population of Puerto Morelos and environmental groups, the Chinese-Mexican Dragon Mart commercial megaproject is equivalent to a threat of harmful effects against the environment and the economic, social and cultural fabric of Quintana Roo.
With information from:
[Expreso Campeche]
[El Paraíso en la Mira del Dragón]
[Voces Unidas De Puerto Morelos]
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