Mexico Mexico's billionaire business tycoon Carlos Slim. The government of the state of Yucatán is also funding the construction of a high speed line connecting the cities of Cozumel to Mérida and Chichen Itza and Cancún. Mexico has 233 airports with paved runways; of these, 35 carry 97% of the passenger traffic. The Mexico City International Airport remains the busiest in Latin America and the 36th busiest in the world transporting 45 million passengers a year. Among the achievements is a significant increase in access to piped water supply in urban areas (88% to 93%) as well as in rural areas
Opera in Latin America by José Zorrilla de San Martín. In the 19th and 20th century, a number of operas were produced in Latin America in which conflict between Europeans and indigenous peoples was a theme. Among the most important operas of this type are "Liropeya" by León Ribeiro (Uruguay); "Guatimotzin" by Aniceto Ortega (Mexico); "Il Guarany" by Antonio Carlos Gomes (1836–1896), based on a novel by the Brazilian José Martiniano de Alencar; "Atzimba" by Ricardo Castro (Mexico, 1864–1907); the three eponymous operas based on the "Tabaré" by José Zorrilla de San Martín, written, respectively, by Arturo Cosgaya Ceballos (Mexico, 1869–1937), Heliodoro Oseguera (Mexico),