Maya village's water, future threatened by Mexican train
A bulldozer sits idle during repairs as it clears a path through the forest to make way for the Maya Train project in Akumal, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. The Maya Train is one of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s signature projects and has drawn objections from environmentalists, archaeologists and cave divers, who have held protests to block backhoes from tearing down trees and scraping clean the thin layer of soil. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
By MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press
VIDA Y ESPERANZA, Mexico — Mexico’s ambitious Maya Train project is supposed to bring development to the Yucatan Peninsula, but along the country’s Caribbean coast it is threatening the Indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help....
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