Yeah, I thought the guard rails and AMLO's lack of time left in the job would be enough to keep him out of trouble, but this is some authoritarian bullshit.
I've been somewhat following the maya train saga since it started. It is a kind of necessary part of infrastructure for the south of Mexico, it would be kind of huge tbh. But it started going sideways when AMLO buckled to the hotel lobby that didn't want it in a shared right of way with the federal highway that runs the length of the coast between Cancun and Tulum. The new route, of course, was fucking devestating. Unnecessary damage to their rain forest (I've seen estimates of 7-10 million trees set to be cut down, when AMLO promised that not a single tree would be cut down because they were going to use existing right of ways) and now the new route probably runs directly overtop of the cenote cave system, and because of how thin the ceiling wall of some of these cenotes are (less than a few feet thick in places), some of the cenotes themselves would have to be filled in, which would have unknown effects on the aquifer system and ground water in the region.
Should have just told the resorts to fuck off and built it on the original route. Figured he could make the wealthy corps (that are known to wash cartel money) happy, and just use this national security bullshit to jam through his legacy project.
www.theguardian.com
knows. The Ukes are just as savvy re: misinformation judo.