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18 Sep 2015

Author:
Viviane Mahieux, Counter Punch

When Mindfulness Goes Wrong: a Mega-Development’s Deceptive Branding in Mexico

…Todos los Santos is getting…[a] real-estate project called Tres Santos…Colorado State University’s first international campus [has already inaugurated]…But the campus’s coziness with Tres Santos and with MIRA, the Mexican affiliate of Colorado-based Black Creek Capital…have unsettled both the…community and…students. The campus is supposedly built on gifted land, but CSU does not have full ownership of the trust…Tres Santos has already bulldozed endangered mangroves, built a private reservoir that holds more water than the town’s own, and reportedly is requesting permits to build 8 more private wells. Such a large-scale luxury project can only exacerbate inequality and result in various forms of displacement…

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