What a 1,000-mile railway across the Yucatán jungle says about Mexico’s outgoing president
LA TimesAs the sleek new train pulled out of the station in Cancun and sped into the dense Mexican jungle, Mario Meneses held his camera to the window, capturing it all on video. The $30-billion train is the signature project of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who promises that it will become a major draw for tourists and an economic engine for southern Mexico. “We’ve never had anything like this in Mexico.” : : López Obrador inaugurated the train project in 2018, a few weeks after he took office. “More tourism means more work.” He was impressed by López Obrador’s tenacity in pushing forward with the train despite opposition. He said he hoped the railway would boost López Obrador’s reputation “as a person who loves Mexico and did everything he could for the good of all.”
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