Fisherman Manuel de la Cruz (C) speaks during an interview in Puerto Ceiba, Tabasco state, Mexico, December 10, 2018. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
PARAISO, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's race to build an oil refinery in record time on land that was until recently alive with mangrove, wild cats and boa constrictors, has run into trouble, complicating his effort to revive ailing state-oil company Pemex.
Even before Lopez Obrador took office last December, work had begun to cut down protected woodland on Pemex land on the coast of Tabasco state to make room for the new refinery next to the Dos Bocas port.
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