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The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, inaugurated this Friday the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT) train

The new government-operated airline completed its first flight, after a few hiccups, from Mexico City's to the new Tulum airport.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday inaugurated the new interoceanic railroad through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which will cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice versa, and somehow compete with the 80-kilometer Panama Canal, which takes 8 to 10 hours to cross.

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At Mexico's narrowest point, linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the government is building a railway rival to the Panama Canal with promises of economic bounty but amid fears of environmental and social harm.But, he warned, that "does not erase its environmental and social impact."

At Mexicos narrowest point, linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the government is building a railway rival to the Panama Canal with promises of economic bounty but amid fears of environmental and social harm.

Mexico is building a new canal to rival Panama's, but indigenous groups say it will damage ancestral lands and draw organized crime.

The Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is one of the three most important projects of the current government in Mexico, together with the Mayan Train, in the southeastern Yucatán peninsula, and the Olmeca refinery system