The Tren Maya is more than the tracks: it is a gateway to regional and global trade and integration. ” Above all, the State is interested in opening the gateway to these capitals through the Train, especially in terms of commercial exchange. The tourist part is the plus”.
In the framework of the agreements reached at the Third National Assembly for Water and Life, held in the town of San Gregorio Atlapulco, Xochimilco, CDMX, we, the peoples, neighborhoods, organizations, networks, collectives and communities that compose it, declare: That the war we face throughout all national territory, is directed and executed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “Supreme Chief of the Armed Forces” and head of the Federal Executive, with the objective, to guarantee and safeguard the interests of big capital, the interests of the holders of power and money, and the impunity with which the Mexican narco-State operates. The …
In recent years the Mayan community of Ixil Yucatan has been the target of several attempts to dispossess them of their lands; first for the installation of large-scale wind energy projects, then for real estate speculation, under false pretenses entrepreneurs attempted to take their lands but the community have manage to recover them; now they are again trying to dispossess them of more than 300 hectares that are being used for community projects. Last August 17, the Yucatan state police prevented them from accessing their lands because of an alleged sale they had made, which the ejidatarios deny having sold.
CECCAM director Ana de Ita takes a community-eye view of the AMLO’s star program for reducing poverty in the country.
The National Trust for the Promotion of Tourism contracts with security agencies for the mitigation of potential “incidents” involving the Mayan Train.
