Fox: “No more money for beaches”
Sheltering from a persistent February rain, President Vicente Fox had a gloomy message for those hoping to hear a commitment to cough up the extra 160m pesos (US$15m) needed to widen the beach to fully 60m.
Fox adopted a ‘wait and see’ tone. "Let’s finish this phase first."
The president spent 35 minutes observing the bulldozers at work and a choppy sea from a vantage point within the boundary walls of the Sun Palace hotel. He waited (in vain) for the dredger to appear with the next load of sand.
Tourism Secretary, Rodolfo Elizondo Torres, director of Fonatur, John McCarthy, and a gaggle of state and local funcionarios, all accompanied Fox.
“Cancún está de pie”, exulted the president. Cancún is back on its feet.
Jan de Nul has made good progress since the first ‘recycled’ sand pumped onto the beach at El Mirador on February 1st.
The 24/7 operation has covered almost 3km of the 12km stretch from Punta Cancún to Punta Nizuc, at an average width of 25m.
photo courtesy Jim Wehrle
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