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Mexico & Nafta - December 2018
Start date announced for controversial Tren Maya project
Construction on the ‘Tren Maya’, President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s flagship infrastructure development project, is scheduled to begin on 16 December, but the incoming president has faced criticism for issuing official approval before public consultations or environmental impact surveys have been completed. Coming just months after the cancellation of the new Mexico City international airport project (NAIM), the new administration has been working hard to justify the Tren Maya railway plans, intended to facilitate tourism and economic development in south-eastern Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
