A worker cleans a beach in Tulum, Mexico, on 15 June. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.

… Tourism secretary Miguel Torres Márquez tweeted a video of a pristine Cancún beach with the comment: “We’re looking after Cancún, ‘our blue-eyed girl’ and all the beautiful beaches of the Mexican Caribbean.”
(David Agren, Seaweed invasion threatens tourism in Mexico’s beaches as problem worsens,” The Guardian, 6-28-19)

A morbid sargassum bloom-and-rot cycle is befouling beaches from Cancun to Belize. The fatuous tweet of the Mexican bureaucrat adds a whiz of male-pattern badness to the Augean tide of human effluent corrupting the Caribbean.

(c) 2019 JMN