The president of Mexico, Andrew Manuel Lopez Obradorreported that it restarted the works of building in the leg 5 of Maya Trendwhich goes from Cancun and Tulum, following they did not proceed los shelters once morest said priority work.
With absolute adherence to legality, patience and the support of the people, we restarted the work on the Cancun-Tulum section. The amparos did not proceed in legal, environmental or social matters. There will be Mayan Train. pic.twitter.com/jJiRKKDEDT
– Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) September 4, 2022
Through a message broadcast on social networks, President López Obrador made it clear that “there will be a Mayan Train” next year.
“With absolute adherence to legality, patience and the support of the people, we restart the work on the Cancun-Tulum section,” reads the message.
“The amparos did not proceed in legal, environmental or social matters. There will be a Mayan Train”, pointed out the Mexican president.
The Mayan Train is one of the priority projects of President López Obrador, with an investment of around 200 billion pesos, to build more than 1,500 kilometers of railway in five states in the southeast: Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.
In recent months, activists had obtained amparos and demanded that the Government suspend Section 5 for having caused the felling of thousands of trees, polluting underground rivers and damaging natural and archaeological heritage.
López Obrador declared the Mayan Train last July as a “national security” work to continue its construction despite the protections obtained by environmentalists.
“It has already been decided that it is a matter of national security and that we are not going to stop a work that is for the benefit of the people for the interests of a group of corrupt and pseudo-environmentalists,” said the president at his morning press conference on the 19th. of July.
The president’s statement comes one day following a protest by Greenpeace, which denounced the illegal restart of the works of section 5 of the Mayan Train, which runs from Cancun to Tulum, in the state of Quintana Roo, and which was suspended by orders court cases following injunctions obtained by environmentalists and native communities.
With information from López-Dóriga Digital
