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The Tren Maya: infrastructure and indigenous culture
Claims that Amlo’s Mayan Train project around Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula is a form of ‘savage capitalism’ do not stand up to scrutiny, explains DAVID RABY
CROSSED WIRES? (L to R) Protesters in front of the National Palace in Constitution Square in Mexico City: ‘I don't want a refinery, I don't want the Mayan train, I want a planet to live on;' Maya Train route through the Yucatan Peninsula
[(L to R) Francisco Colín Varela/CC and Gabomiranda/CC]
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THE Mayan Train is President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s biggest infrastructure project, with a 1,550km route looping round the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico’s neglected south-east.
Amlo claims that it is the greatest railway project currently being built anywhere in the world.
Planned early in Amlo’s term, it is being built in seven sections, each contracted to consortia of public and private enterprises (Mexican, European and Asian) with supervision by the federal tourist agency and the armed forces.
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