Tren Maya Derailed in Yucatán Station
Monday’s derailment marks the second major controversy faced by the Tren Maya this month after two menwere struck by a passing train on March 11
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AMLO Reveals Deal for Railway Appropriation with Grupo México
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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreMetro Line 7 Station Evacuated for Smoke from Train Short Circuit
The Mexico City government later stated that the smoke was due to an apparent short circuit
Read moreTren 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
Read moreThe Little Town that Could, and Did, and Then Didn’t, and Now Wants to Again
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a tourist destination, Iguala, the little town in the northeastern corner of the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero, gets a bad rap. Irreparably linked to the 2014 disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students who were allegedly disappeared by government forces in the nearby town of Ayotzinapa after they had commandeered a bus to travel
Read moreCost of Train to Felipe Ángeles Airport Doubles in Price
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The cost of the construction of the still-abandoned, still-almost-impossible-to-get-to Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), one of the pet megaprojects of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López (AMLO), has doubled since work began on it in 2020. Originally slated to cost 12.479 billion pesos, the train, which is intended to provide travelers with affordable access to the AIFA, increased
Read moreTren Maya, Suburban Train to Cost 70 Billion Pesos More
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
Read moreMexican Film Stars Launch Campaign against Tren Maya
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Some of Mexico’s biggest film and television royalty have joined forces to launch a campaign against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Tren Maya, a massive 230 billion-peso tourist train project that environmentalists have warned will destroy over half the natural flora and fauna in the Yucatan Peninsula. Last month, the government re-charted Section
Read moreTren Maya Rerouted around Campeche after Backlash
By KELIN DILLON After widespread complaints about the under-construction Tren Maya plans to pass through Campeche’s capital of the same name, it has been announced that instead the train will pass around the city’s outskirts by the Campeche airport instead. Many residents of Campeche had protested against the project before the new decision due to fears of being displaced from
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