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The line, one of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors flagship projects, is supposed to attract tourists to the Yucatan Peninsula. Activists have denounced its impact on the regions ecosystem.

Mexico's Maya Train, a flagship project of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, was set to open Friday with a promise of prosperity for one of the country's most impoverished regions, but also dogged by accusations that it has devastated the environment."It is a magnum opus" that was built "in record time," said Lopez Obrador in his daily morning conference before the opening ceremony, praising participation of the armed forces in the railway's development.

By Cristina Sánchez Reyes (Bacalar) Mexico, Dec 11 (EFE).- Local communal landholders are hopeful that the Mayan Train, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s emblematic project, will bring greater visibility and economic growth never seen before to Mexico’s traditionally forgotten southeast, although they recognize the impact on labor and their ways of life. “I believe …

Bacalar (Mexico), Dec 8 (EFE).- The Mayan Train, the flagship project of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has put local communities in the southeast of the country in a dilemma. While recognizing the development it would bring to the region, they have to live with its negative consequences, such as “touristification” and the consequent …

Mexico is a popular retirement destination, thanks to its affordable health care, low living costs, warm weather, and more.

El Salvador plans to invest $700m in building its first modern railway to improve communication inside the country and with neighbouring states, local daily Diario El Salvador reports.

Attorneys from global law firm Greenberg Traurig’s Mexico City office represented Banobras (Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos, S.N.C.) in a transaction granting a loan to Empresas ICA (ICA).

The controversial Mayan Train project in Mexico has confirmed that the first section of the track will open on 15 December.

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

The body was found with three ceramic vases, a pair of earrings and two green stone beads.