Ever since the first cross-country railroad from Tapachula on the Guatemalan border to the Juárez at the U.S, border, developing the isthmus into a Panama-type of interoceanic link has been in the plans of numerous Mexican governments
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The Mexican railway giant chose to stop service on 60 of its freight train routes due to reported injuries and deaths sustained by migrants who attempting to board its train carriages
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Political temperatures are also rising, and potential conflicts and near-miss economic catastrophes are coming to a head in the Western Hemisphere and around the globe
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According to López Obrador, Grupo México has volunteered to temporarily concede the 120 kilometers of tracks on Ferrosur’s southeastern Tehuantepec Isthmus Railroad to Semar in exchange for an extended eight-year concession period for this same stretch of tracks spanning from 2036 to 2044
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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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By MARK LORENZANA The federal government of Mexico will spend almost 70 billion pesos more to finish two of its flagship railway projects: the controversial Tren Maya and the extension of the suburban train that will run from Lechería station in the State of Mexico (EdoMéx) to the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA). On June 1, Mexico’s Secretariat of
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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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By RICARDO CASTILLO March for Truth, Justice and Peace The several thousand participants in the so-called March for Truth, Justice and Peace on Sunday, Jan. 26, were demanding that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) government come up with a strategy to put an end to the apparently endless and seemingly eternal rising number of murders that Mexico is
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