VIDA Y ESPERANZA, MEXICO (AP) – 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. One controversial stretch cuts a more than 68-mile swath through […]
The 300 or so largely Maya inhabitants of the village of Vida y Esperanza fear the train will pollute the caves that supply their water, endanger their children and cut off their access to the outside world.
VIDA Y ESPERANZA, Mexico (AP) 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.