The Mexican president’s latest boondoggle officially opens
The Maya Train will not be fully operating until February 2024, however
On coming to power in 2018 Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s president, promised to boost the fortunes of the poor south-east. His flagship project to do so is a 1,500km (970-mile) tourist railway, known as the Tren Maya, connecting towns, beach resorts and ruins around the Yucatán peninsula, which the president inaugurated on December 15th.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Money down the train”
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