Submission on enforcement matters filed in accordance with Article 24.27

On 22 November 2021, the “Order instructing the agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration to take the measures indicated in relation to those projects and works of the Government of Mexico that are considered to be in the public and national security interest as well as strategic priorities for national development,” issued by the President of the United Mexican States, was publis. [...] Likewise, the constitutional order, the unity of the federation, and the reinforcement of democratic institutions do not depend on its construction, since those aims are the responsibility of other types of legal instruments and measures designed to preserve the safety and peace of the nation, not of a transportation system. [...] As a result of the above, we filed various citizen complaints, as residents of Playa del Carmen, with the Profepa office in Quintana Roo, in the city of Cancún, municipality of Benito Juárez, notifying it of the aforementioned acts and facts, requesting that the necessary procedures be carried out and that safety, emergency, and corrective measures be applied with the aim of stopping the activitie. [...] We contend that the actions and omissions of the responsible authorities caused violations of the human rights of the submitters and of the communities of Solidaridad and Tulum, Quintana Roo, as well as failures to enforce the following provisions of the international and Mexican federal environmental legal framework: Articles 1, 4, 6, 14, 16, 26, and 35 paragraph III of the Mexican Constitution (. [...] The impacts and the lack of studies to analyze and assess them are as follows: risk of subsidence of the Tren Maya for failure to consider the fragility of karst soils in the Yucatán Peninsula.