Supreme Court to Strike Down AMLO’s Decree on Government Projects
Mexico’s Supreme Court is preparing to deal another blow to the federal government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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Tren Maya’s Section 5 South Is Rerouted Yet Again
More than 60 percent of the road will be an elevated viaduct to protect the karstic soil, cenotes, caverns and underground rivers in the area
Read moreSection 6 of Tren Maya to Be Most Destructive, Expensive
By MARK LORENZANA Section 6 of the controversial Tren Maya, which will run from Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo to its capital city of Chetumal, will be the most destructive in environmental terms, and also the most expensive. The Environmental Impact Statement (MIA) for the 255-kilometer Section 6 of the Tren Maya — one of Mexican President
Read moreJudge Refuses to Budge on Stoppage of Tren Maya Project
PULSE NEWS MEXICO In yet another chapter in the continuing saga of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) come-hell-or-high-water Tren Maya tourist train project versus the Mexican legal system, a judge in the Mérida, Yucatán, reiterated on Monday, July 25, his previous order for the definitive suspension of works of the train’s Section 5 South. On May 30, the federal
Read moreWork Continues on Suspended Tren Maya Section, with 92 Percent Budget Hike
By KELIN DILLON While work on the fifth section of Mexico’s controversial Tren Maya project was purportedly suspended by a Mexican federal judge last April after the project failed to acquire proper Environmental Impact Statements (MIA) ahead of its construction, building on the Tren Maya’s fifth section has reportedly continued on in spite of the judge’s ruling – and with
Read moreAMLO’s Tren Maya: An Unlawful Act of Ecocide
By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER On Sunday, June 5, World Environment Day, Mexico — once again — will have nothing to celebrate. The fact that the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has decided to complete ignore and override a definitive suspension granted by a federal court’s legal injunction 884/2022 against the works of Section Five of the Tren Maya
Read moreFonatur Ignores Judicial Order to Suspend Work on Tren Maya
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just hours after a federal judge ordered a definite suspension of all construction on Section 5 of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial Tren Maya tourist train on Monday, May 30, the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) declared that work on that segment of the railway would continue anyway. In a statement
Read moreAMLO Says Tren Maya Construction without Permit Is ‘Legal’
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that yet another federal judge on Monday, May 2, ordered the stoppage of all construction on Section 5 of the Mexican president’s controversial Tren Maya railway project because of its endangerment of the fragile cenote underwater riverways in that region, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, May 3, said that
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