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AMLO Announces Semar’s Absorption of the AICM
The Mexican Navy will now have full administrative and operation control of the capital’s main transportation hub, as well as new jurisdiction over a handful of the nation’s other airports
Read moreOver 2,000 Hectares Expropriated for Tren Maya
López Obrador has already successfully expropriated a total of 2,038 hectares for his priority railway project
Read moreRemains of Eight Bodies Found Near Cancun
Authorities in the Mexican Caribbean state of Quintana Roo reported that they had discovered the remains of eight people dumped just outside the resort city of Cancun
Read moreTren Maya’s Section 5 South Is Rerouted Yet Again
More than 60 percent of the road will be an elevated viaduct to protect the karstic soil, cenotes, caverns and underground rivers in the area
Read moreNavigating Mexico: What’s with the Dogs?
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE While pets are more and more cherished members of the family for Mexico’s middle and upper classes, in poorer neighborhoods, they are still tied to the roof, given leftover food scraps and used for security. They are not usually seen in movie theaters or in fancy restaurants. Or are they? An interesting cultural transformation is
Read moreSection 6 of Tren Maya to Be Most Destructive, Expensive
By MARK LORENZANA Section 6 of the controversial Tren Maya, which will run from Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo to its capital city of Chetumal, will be the most destructive in environmental terms, and also the most expensive. The Environmental Impact Statement (MIA) for the 255-kilometer Section 6 of the Tren Maya — one of Mexican President
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
Read moreWork Continues on Suspended Tren Maya Section, with 92 Percent Budget Hike
By KELIN DILLON While work on the fifth section of Mexico’s controversial Tren Maya project was purportedly suspended by a Mexican federal judge last April after the project failed to acquire proper Environmental Impact Statements (MIA) ahead of its construction, building on the Tren Maya’s fifth section has reportedly continued on in spite of the judge’s ruling – and with
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
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