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"Pitched as a way to develop the country’s poorest region, the Maya Train is threatened by a ballooning budget and rushed construction over fragile terrain. But Mexico’s president has refused to slow it down."

Pitched as a way to develop the country’s poorest region, the Maya Train is threatened by a ballooning budget and rushed construction over fragile terrain. But Mexico’s president has refused to slow it down.

VIDA Y ESPERANZA, Mexico (AP) -- Mexicos ambitious Maya Train project is supposed to bring development to the Yucatan Peninsula, but along the countrys Caribbean coast it is threatening the Indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help.

A train project is threatening the Indigenous people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help

Mexico’s ambitious Maya Train project is threatening the Indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help

Mexico’s president is hellbent on making his 1,500-kilometer Maya Train project a reality, regardless of the cost to the environment, indigenous communities or the government treasury. Maybe that’s why some people have compared it to Donald Trump’s border wall project.

Mexicos ambitious Maya Train project is supposed to bring development to the Yucatan Peninsula, but along the countrys Caribbean coast it is threatening the Indigenous Maya people it was named after. (Aug. 22)

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VIDA Y ESPERANZA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s ambitious Maya Train project is supposed to bring development to the Yucatan Peninsula, but along the country’s Caribbean coast it is threatening the Indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help.