“Mexico’s new jungle train is turning into an environmental horror”is the title of the report broadcast by the television station N-tvwhich warns that the new Maya Train line that runs through 5 states in southeastern Mexico is intended to take tourists through the jungle, but at the cost of pollution and destructionn of natural resources in the region
In the video report, they criticize the great work that promotes Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and that the president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum has promised to extend, due to environmental pollution that is causing.
“Conservationists are sounding the alarm because the mega construction project is putting enormous pressure on wildlife and polluting water.
“However, the Mexican government does not want to hear anything about it and, by decree, prevents countermeasures from being taken.”
N-tva channel that broadcasts news, economic information and talk shows, and is controlled by the French radio network RTL, carried out a rtraveled by train, starting in Cancun.
The television station remembers that This is an incomplete work and is still under construction. but it already works in certain sections.
Maya Train: Too much railway for too few users
“We don’t see many tourists on the train and there are many empty seats.“, says the reporter. The report refers to the estimated cost of the work: 24 billion euros.
TO UNDERSTAND BETTER: Sedena illegally exploits mines for the Mayan Train; this is how it devastates the jungle VIDEO
“The view is the same. You see lots of trees, nothing else,” and two stops after starting the journey, it ends because this is the section of the Train that has been completed.
However, N-tv spoke with the environmental activist Guillermo de Christywho retweeted the report on his X account, and who showed the television station the damage caused by the construction of the tourist train.
German television reports that the Maya Train leaves traces of diesel and cement
The German media outlet went into one of the region’s stalactite caves, which are part of a cave system.
In one of the cenotes, De Christy shows one of the 15,000 piles that support the Mayan Train and that cross the cave.
“These piles are the result of drilling to a depth of 25 metres.”
WE SUGGEST: What it’s like to travel on the Mayan Train: Vacationer recounts his experience; reveals surprises
The video shows the various piles that run through the cave and warns that Construction contaminates the water where fish and turtles lives.
Jaguars, pumas and bears, he says, citing images from the Jaguar Regional Wildlife Center as evidence, also enter the cave to drink water.
The activist explains in the report that they have been working for a year “finding traces of diesel and cement in the water.”
Species mortality in the Yucatan Peninsula due to the Mayan Train
The television station explains that the entire Mayan Train is built on hundreds of cenotes and that during the construction “nature was not taken into account.” In addition, it adds, 10 million trees have been cut down.
The report includes photos of pumas and jaguars killed after running away from the jungle towards the road due to fear caused by the noise.
READ: Maya Train ran over 200 vestiges in the Yucatan Peninsula: INAH researcher
However, the report notes that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador describes the Maya Train as a “prestigious project” that should be implemented before his term ends on October 1.
He indicates that in response to complaints from activists, Lopez Obrador issued a decree declaring that the entire project is of “interest to the national security“, so searching for detailed information and any judgment against it is impossible.
Despite a regional court ordering the work to be suspended, N-tv secretly filmed the work continuing.
The Mayan Train is considered an “environmental horror” in Germany; this is what TV says
According to activist Gemma Santana, with N-tv There are now 20 international media outlets that are talking about the destruction caused by the Mayan Train.
The report talks about the section that López Obrador intends to have finished before leaving his mandate, and the reporter explains that it is not even close to Tulum, so It will hardly attract tourists, since they would have to walk for about an hour to get there.
READ ALSO: “Dispute between cartels is over the fee charged” for the Mayan Train and Trans-Isthmus Corridor: EZLN
When interviewing a tourists in tulumThey said that to get there they take buses or taxis, and that the area where the train stop is located is very far away, so it would not be an option.
In the past, media such as the French Le Monde have referred to this issue.
READ: “El Chaparrito,” leader of the CJNG detained in Mérida, is prosecuted: what was he doing in Yucatán?
Related
#Mayan #Train #considered #environmental #horror #Germany
2024-09-01 03:38:09
