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Mexico launches $7.4bn Tren Maya railway project
6 hours ago
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has launched the Maya Train - an ambitious project to build a railway through five south-eastern states.
At an indigenous ceremony near the ancient Mayan ruins of Palenque, he said this would help create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
The 1,525km (950-mile) railway will link Palenque and the tourist resort of Cancún on the Caribbean coast.
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A third of the planned route passes through pristine jungle, and the owners of the land, the Maya people, say they have not been consulted.
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46588042