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Tren Maya: Mexico’s Yucatán railway project ‘horrifies’ environmentalists – BBC News


Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is unveiling a new multi-billion-dollar rail network called the ‘Tren Maya’.

The network will stretch for 1,500km (930 miles) and it is expected to bring two million more tourists a year to the impoverished Yucatán Peninsula.

But it has run massively over budget and critics have said it’s an environmental catastrophe.

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