The platform save the little port will call from June 19 marches every Sunday from the beach of armenimein Adejein the south of Tenerifeto the place where it is intended to build a tourist macro-complex Cradle of the Soul with the aim of being “witnesses that the destruction continues.”
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With these words, the coordinator of the platform, Silvia Vidal, has defined to EFE the objective of these new mobilizations, who has affirmed that, despite the Order of temporary stoppage of the works issued by the Cabildo de Tenerifethe construction work on the access roads to the future tourist enclave continues.
This implies that a place that is known as “the last paradise in the south” of Tenerife “continues to be destroyed”, and the platform encourages citizens to come on Sundays to be “witnesses” that construction continues to progress “and that this will not be left in silence”.
Silvia Vidal has specified that this is one of the actions decided by the platform, made up of 272 people and that it was established after the first citizen assembly held in Puertito de Adeje in opposition to the Cuna del alma tourism macroproject, promoted by Belgian investors.
The platform has developed other actions, such as a cacerolada and a mobilization with black t-shirts, in addition to promoting the demonstration held on Saturday June 11 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and which brought together several thousand people in the center of the capital.
Vidal has pointed out that they are also studying possible legal actions to stop the project “and put pressure” on the administration, which he criticizes for “adorning with pretty words of sustainable development” that do not translate into support for an enclave that, he recalled, among Other features include a whale sanctuary in its waters.
So far three complaints have already been filed against the project: one for carrying out works on weekends, something prohibited by municipal ordinances in Adeje; another for the continuation of the works despite the stoppage orderand a third, because the works could be developing affecting an archaeological site, something that the Canary Islands Government Heritage is investigating.
This same Thursday the island group Sí Podemos Canarias in the Cabildo announced that it has registered “a request requesting verification of compliance with the order for the precautionary suspension of works in Puertito de Adeje, issued by the corporation on May 31.” The organization pointed out that, “after disseminating said order”, it suspects “that it was not complied with” and warns that it is aware that “on June 2 this led to the filing of a complaint with the Canarian Agency for the Protection of the Natural Environment, because works would have continued to be carried out on the site, as the Salvar La Tejita association denounced publicly and before the competent institution.”
