The Little Train That Couldn’t
AMLO may indeed see himself as a little engine that could, but the truth is that both he and his “trencito” are antiquated, stuck-in-the-mud fossils with inauspicious prospects
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Mexican President Decorates Cuban Leader
López Obrador has irked both conservatives and the United States by praising the Cuban dictatorship and repeatedly condemning the U.S trade embargo against the communist island
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
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Nature’s Response to AMLO’s Tren Maya
Read moreTren Maya Could Destroy Pre-Hispanic Archeological Treasures
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s ever-more-controversial Tren Maya tourist train project — a 1,500-kilometer railway system imposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that has been widely condemned for threating both the fragile geography of the country’s Yucatan Peninsula and over half of the region’s indigenous flora and fauna — is now facing yet another obstacle in its completion. The
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
Read moreAMLO Orders Land Expropriations for Tren Maya Railway
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Friday, April 29, that he has ordered the expropriation of all private land that crosses the Tren Maya tourist train route, property which he said is currently is in the hands of real estate agents who “are only out to make a profit.” Speaking during his
Read moreEco Reserve Being Mined to Provide for Tren Maya
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With official authorization from the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), three private companies are currently extracting tons of volcanic rock in the Balzapote ejido, within the Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve in Veracruz, to take it to the Yucatan Peninsula and be used in the construction of the Tren Maya tourist train,
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