Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is unveiling a new multi-billion-dollar rail network called the ‘Tren Maya’. The network will stretch for 1,500km (930 miles) and it is expected to bring two million more tourists a year to the impoverished Yucatán Peninsula. But it has run massively over budget and critics have said it’s an environmental catastrophe.
Tren Maya: Mexico’s Yucatán railway project ‘horrifies’ environmentalists – BBC News
