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Tren Maya Construction Slogs through Supply, Permit Delays

By KELIN DILLON According to reports from operators working on the construction of Mexico’s controversial public megaproject the Tren Maya – documents which were leaked to the public by hacktivist group Guacamaya – the project is facing multiple supply and permitting delays that could push the Tren Maya’s completion far beyond its estimated December 2023 delivery date. These issues join

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1,300-Year-Old Maya Head Unearthed at Palenque

PULSE NEWS MEXICO A stucco head of a young Maya god of corn, dating back over 1,300 years, was unearthed in the Palenque archeological zone in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported Tuesday, May 31. The discovery was recorded during the 2021 archeological exploration season sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Ambassadors

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20 Dead in Michoacán, AMLO Dismisses Massacre as Gang Collateral Damage

XINHUA At least 20 people are dead after what appeared to be a cartel-war shootout in the town of Las Tinajas, Michoacán, on Sunday, March 27, according to that central Mexican state’s Attorney General’s Office. The shootout took place late Sunday night at a clandestine cockfight (palenque), where police later discovered the lifeless remains of 16 men and three women (another

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Tren Maya Suspended Indefinitely Due to Environmental Concerns

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICIO STAFF A federal court on Monday, March 8, ordered the suspension of the environmental construction permit for the first three segments of one of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet vanity megaprojects, the Tren Maya tourist train, which would cut across the Yucatan Peninsula. The federal court suspended all construction of the 1.500-kilometer

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AMLO Gives New Meaning to the Phrase ‘Brotherly Love’

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Among the myriad of self-ordained unofficial titles that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has acquired over his so-far two-and-a-half-year-term of office is that of clergy-in-chief. Indeed, it is not uncommon for the president to transition his daily political bully pulpit into a religious pulpit during his two-hour-long morning press conferences. And one of his favorite

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Mexico Gives 2 Billion to Baseball, Leaving Others in the Outfield

By KELIN DILLON New reports show that Mexico’s federal government has invested nearly 2 billion pesos into the funding of new baseball fields for the country, while only giving 830 million pesos to the National Institute of Women, despite the country’s femicide rate rising by 7.1 percent in 2021 from the previous year. The government has reportedly attempted to justify

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Tren Maya Will Leave More than 3,000 Families Homeless

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s controversial Tren Maya tourist train, a pet project of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that both national and international environmentalists have repeatedly warned could destroy over half of the Yucatan’s fragile species, will also leave more than 3,000 mostly indigenous Mexican families homeless, according to report published in El Universal newspaper on

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