Court Rules AMLO’s Verbal Order Did Not Harm Calica Company

Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who recently reappeared, did not harm Calica by giving the verbal order to close its lands in 2022, according to a ruling by federal magistrates in an amparo case through which the U.S.-origin company sought to shake off the closure of its sascabera.

Members of the Second Collegiate Circuit Court determined there were no harms against the company, which sued the former Mexican president, alleging he executed an authority act from the morning conference of May 2, 2022 that later originated the closure of the lands located south of Playa del Carmen.

“The harms are unfounded, as it is considered that indeed, the verbal order of the President of the Republic is a consummated act in an irreparable manner, whose effects were exhausted at the moment it was issued,” reads the amparo sentence in review 267/2023 issued on Friday, November 28 by the Second Collegiate Circuit Court of Quintana Roo based in Cancún.

The magistrates determined that the verbal order does not constitute an authority act because it was not sent in writing, as established by Mexican laws.

“It lacked motivation and foundation, since it was not even issued in writing,” reiterates the sentence.

Calica claimed, via amparo trial, the president’s actions in his morning conferences; however, it was not benefited in the sentence issued in December 2022 by a federal judge.

Dissatisfied, it appealed around those same dates. Two years later this trial came to an end when declared unappealable.

Calica was closed in May 2022 by the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa), for environmental damages. Its lands, of approximately two thousand 200 hectares, are located about 10 kilometers south of Playa del Carmen.

In 2024 it issued a statement with which it claimed to be the object of a persecution campaign, supposedly orchestrated from the morning conferences of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Currently the company cannot execute extraction work of rocky material for shipment to the United States, because in addition to the imposed closures, its lands remained within the recently decreed Felipe Carrillo Puerto Flora and Fauna Conservation Area, which prevents environmental impact activities, also decreed by the predecessor of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.