AMLO: To Military Operation, the Mayan Train and 4 Airports
Recent developments for territorial and urban planning take hold as AMLO seeks to tie the airport and Mayan Train projects and infrastructure to military control.
Tren Maya
Protection and Complaint presented to the Inter-American Commision on Human Rights for Five Mega-Projects
The imposition of five megaprojects in southeast Mexico are the continuation of the Plan Puebla Panama. Legal appeals on the violations of Human Rights were filed August 7th.
Pedro Uc, language and territory
Luis Hernandez Navarro introduces Pedro Uc Be, an important leader in the resistance against AMLO’s wrongly named Mayan Train.
Tremendous risk of cultural and historical loss with the Maya Train, say specialists
Researchers cite the grave shortcomings of a long-overdue Environmental Impact Statement on the not -so -Mayan Train.
May No God Remember Your Name
by Yásnaya Elena A. Gil I’d like to start by making a concession: behind the implementation of the Mayan Train, one of the most promoted projects by the new Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the best intentions lay the foundations for its execution. After centuries of abandonment in which the Mayan people have been dispossessed and pushed into a process of indolent impoverishment, the new government intends, at last, to implement an integral project that has as its main objective to create “social welfare for the population that inhabits the Mayan zone” and “to integrate territories of great natural …