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Calling on the Mexican government to turn down an application from Sol Melia to build on the X'Cacel beach in the Caribbean state of Cancun, a project that has faced fierce opposition from ecologists, Greenpeace said the land should have been declared a nature reserve, not a building site. Villanueva, the former governor of the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, has been on the lam since being accused last year of allowing drug traffickers to turn his state into a major landing post for Colombian cocaine. The 13 men arrested are accused of illegally selling and possessing alligators, snook, jewfish, a loggerhead sea turtle, stone crabs, gag grouper and marijuana. An undercover Fish and Wildlife Commission agent worked as a cook and caterer in the fishing village for two years collecting evidence. A Navy spokesman said the Navy marks sea turtle nests as simulated mines during exercises so they will not be disturbed.