Gael García called Semarnat's statement about celebrities against the Mayan Train “ignorant”

Gael García Bernal showed that he disagrees with the response that Semarnat gave to the celebrities who were part of the Sélvame del Tren videos, since they were called “pseudo-environmentalists” and questioned why they did not act in favor of the environment before.

On March 22, Eugenio Derbez, Rubén Albarrán, Natalia Lafourcade, Kate del Castillo, Bárbara Mori, among other renowned artists joined the Sélvame del Tren movement, in which they called for the construction of the Mayan Train to be stopped.

Faced with this, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador defended his project by calling those participating in the campaign “pseudo-environmentalists”, a word that was repeated by the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) in the statement it released on March 25 about criticism of the Maya Train.

In a short tweet, Gael García showed his position on what was reported by Semarnat. His message reads:

He also used the @tweet_stamp tool, which allows you to save, or “stamp”, a tweet even though it is deleted, you can also verify that the stamped tweet is original.

Bernal has not made any further statements about the celebrity campaign, but on March 16 he asked his followers on Twitter to read a thread of tweets by Pablo Montaño, who talked about the negative impacts that AMLO's megaproject can have.

“We are not measuring what the ECOCIDE of #TrenMaya implies. Its impacts are already on a scale of terror and the first car has not yet passed; the overflow of tourism, more speculation, more dispossession, more drug trafficking, more violence...” Montaño wrote at the beginning of his thread.

Gael, for his part, said that the construction of the Mayan Train is destroying “a valuable and unique ecosystem in the world.”

Through the Twitter account of the Sélvame del Tren campaign, which fights for respect for the jungle, rivers and cenotes on the route where the controversial Train is to be located Maya, on March 22, a series of videos was published in which different personalities of the acting medium, and even influencers, asked to stop the construction of the fifth section of the mega-work. The celebrities expressed:

Likewise, a petition was launched by the Change.org platform addressed to López Obrador, asking him to stop this project, one of the most ambitious of his government.

This petition argues that the megaproject threatens the natural balance of ecosystems and their diversity through four main environmental damages: deforestation that will cause tranche 5; damage to cenotes, lagoons, mangroves and caverns that are not contemplated in the construction; the extinction of flora and fauna represented by the new line of the Train; and over-urbanization.

On his morning on March 23, AMLO assured that Sélvame del Tren is “a campaign against it because they are very conservative, they are fifis”. In addition, he pointed out that the celebrities had allegedly been hired by conservatives to criticize his project.

Eugenio Derbez regretted the president's response and defended the campaign, saying that he had done it out of love for the country, not because someone else paid him.

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