Two days after it was revealed that the government had expropriated more than 2,000 hectares of private land for the construction of its controversial train, the administration announced the seizure of an additional 242,627 square meters
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López Obrador has already successfully expropriated a total of 2,038 hectares for his priority railway project
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As a result of the railways expropriation, Grupo México shares on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) fell by 4.29 percent
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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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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The United States has its Sasquatch, Nepal has its Yeti and Scotland has its Loch Ness Monster, so Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) apparently felt that Mexico, too, was entitled to an urban legend mythical creature. On Saturday, Feb. 25, the Mexican president posted on his social media a blurry image of what he claimed
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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
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While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial Tren Maya megaproject has been no stranger to judicial amparos and legal delays across the course of its multi-year construction, a Mérida judge’s recent amparo on the Yucatán Peninsula railroad will now see the development of the project’s Section 5 ground to a halt
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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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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
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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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