Yucatan court orders to stop work on the Maya Train in section 7

Merida Yucatan.- Indigenous Mayan communities denounce that the government of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador is in contemptbecause the collegiate Court in Labor and Administrative Matters of the Fourteenth Circuit with headquarters in Merida, Yucatan, confirmed the definitive suspension to stop the work of Maya Train in section 7in favour of Xpujil, Calakmul, in Campechebut these continue.

It was last June 13 when the Yucatan court ratified the halting of the railway works, which prevents physical execution and project material, which was awarded to the indigenous communities of Xpujil, Calakmulfor not having been consulted.

Just in his morning press conference on July 1, AMLO announced, in contempt to this and other judicial orders that will be inaugurated, the days September 7th and 8ththe missing sections of the Maya Train at the end of August, including the 7th that goes from Escárcega to Chetumal, and includes the Centenario, Conhuas-Calakmul, Xpujil and Centenario stations.

AMLO government in contempt: Yucatan court orders to stop work on the Maya Train in section 7

This resolution was derived from the appeals filed by the National Fund for Tourism Development (It is called) and the Legal Counsel of the Presidency of the Republic representing AMLOwhat They intended to revoke the definitive suspension granted on March 3, 2020.

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In ordinary session, the Court of Yucatan declared unfounded the incident of modification and/or revocation of the definitive suspension, maintaining it in favor of the Mayan communities grouped in the Popular Indigenous Regional Council of Xpujil (CRIPX).

And it is that these In December 2019 they promoted an injunction for stop construction of the Mayan Train in order to protect their lands and the territories of the indigenous peoples settled in the municipality of Xpujil.

In spite of the definitive suspension granted by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) to indigenous peoples and communities, The works on the Mayan Train have never stoppedso the AMLO’s government is in contempt.

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“To date, they continue to fail to comply with this resolution because They continue to build the Xpujil train station, they continue with the logging, clearing and changing land use on forest land, as well as with filling and leveling work for the installation of railway tracks,” accuse members of CRIPX.

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“The Federal Executive Branch, which is headed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has not respected the definitive suspension that was granted even before the start of the works, on March 3, 2020 (…)”.

“He has continued with work on Section 7 of the Maya Train in the geographic area of ​​Xpujil, thereby incurring in contempt of a court order and in total disregard for the Judiciary and the indigenous peoples and communities,” they said.

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The AMLO government is in disarray, not only in section 7, since on June 13th a Collegiate Court of Yucatan rejected the appeal once morest the expansion of the grievances of the Virtual Trends in it section 5 which was presented by its administration through the Presidency of the Republic.

Thus, in defiance of the law, the AMLO government continues the construction of the works, to finally finish some 1,554 kilometers of the circuit that covers 5 states: Yucatán, Campeche, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Chiapas.

In his announcement on July 1, AMLO said that in the first week of September all the stations would be open and “a little more than 40 trains” would be operating, since for now only 16 trains are operating, since it was a work that was inaugurated even though it was not completely finished.

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