A man walks across an area of land that was once part of Lake Texcoco, in Chimalhuac‡n, the State of Mexico, Mexico, August 24, 2017. A group of local residents are engaged in a land dispute over this land, which they call ÒTlatelesÓ, or Òmountain of sandÓ which the Mexican Federal Government wanted to use for the new Mexico City International Airport project. Mexico's newly elected president Andreas Lopez Manuel Obrador cancelled this project in the fall of 2018, while it was in the middle of construction. The airport was set to replace the aging Benito Juarez International Airport.

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