Mexican port puts Altamira salt mines at risk

CARLOS JUÁREZ. THE HERALD OF MEXICO The production of this resource puts the work of several families in the country at risk. The extension and constant development of the Altamira Integral Port Administration, south of Tamaulipas, puts at risk the presence of salt mines that date back more than three centuries and on which hundreds of jobs in rural communities depend. The former chronicler and current member of the council, Adrián Olvera Tavera, stated that families from communities such as Lomas del Real and Aquiles Serdán depend on the production of salt in grain; The process lasts six months and the seawater from the Gulf of Mexico is used to create marshes and from there positive results are born.It is estimated that the salt fields have existed for three thousand years, where salt was used to food and very possibly for trade by the inhabitants of the Chak-Pet village, which was settled within what today are the lands of the Port of Altamira. "They are talking about getting ...