In 1983 the Lake Texcoco Commission wrote up a report on the projects proposed for the area demarcated under the name of the former lake. Little more than ten years had gone by since the decree instituting the area. The images, printed in four inks (out of phase), showed grassy areas with cows and pigs, sites under construction and forests sprawling into the distance. They differ starkly from what exists in the land nowadays. The technical language used by the engineers to write the report, with their promises for the future, optimism and anticipation, also departed from reality as observed today, thirty years later, in the land of Lake Texcoco. [...]
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