The Tren Maya: infrastructure and indigenous culture

[Judi Lynn]

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


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.

Locomotives and rolling stock are being manufactured by Alstom of France at its existing Mexican plant in Ciudad Sahagun, Hidalgo, and when complete in December 2023 the railway will be a public enterprise.

The Tren Maya will provide an alternative to road and air transport in a region with a massive tourist industry centred in Cancun and the “Mayan Riviera,” great natural beauty and a wealth of Mayan archaeological sites and surviving indigenous cultures.

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[roody]

1. I look forward to riding

on it.

[bahboo]

2. gonna Cancunize the entire coast...

too bad. It's a beautiful area....