In a judicial win, coastal communities of Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo have at last obtained a definitive suspenstion of the lines 5 and 7 of the Tren Maya, important progress in which human rights and environmental studies will have to be taken into consideration and analyzed.
Definitive Suspension of Lines 5 and 7 of the Tren Maya Granted READ MORE »
Satellite analyses by CartoCritica reveal the scale of deforestation by work on the so-called Mayan Train. Further investigations reveal that the felling of trees for the works, which were largely conducted by the Secretary of National Defense personnel, was not authorized by the Secretary of the Environment prior to the deforestation.
Work on the Tren Maya (Mayan Train) has deforested 6,659 hectares: CartoCrítica READ MORE »
Gilberto López y Rivas
First of all, I would like to highlight the unconsulted nature of the Tren Maya mega-project among the affected populations, which include originary peoples protected by the Constitution and by international agreements, such as ILO Convention 169 and the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples…
The Socio Cultural Impacts of the Tren Maya READ MORE »
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”.
Why don’t the communities want the “misnamed Mayan Train”? READ MORE »
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.
