Trees return to Guadalupe Avenue; 23 pines planted along arches

Published January 16th, 2022

The trees returned to Guadalupe Avenue. On Friday night, 23 adult pines (ages over 10 years and heights of 6 to 8 meters) were reforested on the parking lane; these individuals were donated as part of an environmental compensation and the maintenance of this species is low and easy to adapt since they are endemic to the central zone of Mexico, informed the municipality.

In previous days, the municipal president Mauricio Trejo released a video, where he informed the sanmiguelenses of the beginning of this reforestation campaign in all parks and other public spaces in the neighborhoods, including this important road.

With an excerpt of documentary images, the first municipal recalled when the previous Municipal Administration removed the existing trees and used public force to achieve this, arresting protesters who opposed these actions as an act of defense of these green areas.

“That’s what happened in 2019. Never again are the police going to be employed to reprimand or beat Sanmiguelenses or activists who are defending a tree, the fleet, or the fauna of our municipality. I want to tell you that the trees are coming back to Guadalupe Avenue,” said Trejo Pureco.

He emphasized that returning the trees to Guadalupe Avenue “is not an act of revanchism” against the previous Municipal Government, but an act of justice in favor of the people who at the time fought in favor of these.

“It is an act of justice with all the Sanmiguelenses and the activists who defended the trees. We are in favor of all of them and we are in favor of recovering trees throughout San Miguel de Allende,” emphasized the municipal president.

In this sense, the municipal president insisted that his public policy is in favor of the environment over any public work that involves eliminating green areas to build pavement slabs.

“As never before, we are going to see a green San Miguel, with green areas, with parks, with gardens in good condition. A green San Miguel is a better San Miguel. We are not going to exchange trees for hydraulic concrete: Quite the opposite,” he said.

With these actions, the government initiated a reforestation program, in which the efforts of the Infrastructure and Public Works, Heritage and Historic Center, Urban Development, as well as Environment and Sustainability departments will be joined, to recover the landscape and ecosystems that were lost and deteriorated in recent years.