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Mexican Federal Judge Puts Skids to Maya Train Construction

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Much to the chagrin of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a federal judge on Monday, Feb. 22, ordered the permanent suspension of one of his pet projects, a damn-the-torpedoes tourist train that would have connected the entire southern Yucatan Peninsula (including his native state of Tabasco, where he owns a massive ranch with the bawdy name

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Tren Maya Financing Changes Course

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF    When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) first proposed the ambitious construction of a tourist train that would cross through the southern states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Campeche and Tabasco, he said that 90 percent of the financing for the ambition project would come from private sector sources. The remainder of the

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