AMLO inaugurates the second section of the Mayan Train

By Euro ES Euro - President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated this Sunday the second section of the Mayan Train from Cancún, Quintana Roo, to Palenque, Chiapas, in the southeast of the country, although he did not perform any o!cial ceremony.

At 6:30 local time, the president, accompanied by the governor of Quintana Roo, Mara Lezama, boarded the train that left the train station. Cancun international airport and that it will cover 22 of the 34 stations it will have in total.

“With the opening of the Cancún-palenque section of the Mayan Train, our president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, keeps his word again. “The Mexican southeast shines again!” Lezama highlighted on social networks.

Prior to the departure of the train, the governor highlighted the importance of this “magni;cent and emblematic” federal work for the development of

Quintana Roowith alternate actions and projects along the entire route in Quintana Roo territory, such as the exhibition of garments like the one she wore this day “with great pride”, which consisted of a regional costume made by an artisan from the community of X- Pichil.

Meanwhile, the Government of Quintana Roo stated that they work hand in hand with the federal government “to bring social justice and well-being to all corners of the entity, mainly in our rural communities, in order to show the world the wonders of Maya worldthe crafts and ancestral heritage that are part of our identity.”

The Mexican president was accompanied on this ;rst trip by o!cials such as Rosa Icela Rodríguez, Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection; Miguel Torruco Marqués, Secretary of Tourism; the Secretary of National Defense, Luis Crescencio Sandoval, and the governor of Campeche, Layda

Sansores.

He ;rst Campeche-cancún section It was put into service on December 15, and it is scheduled for February 2024 to have the entire circuit complete, which includes Cancún-chetumalescárcega-palenque.

The Mayan Train includes more than 1,500 kilometers of railway track for transporting cargo, tourists and local passengers in the ;ve southern states of the country: Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Yucatán.

The project began construction ;ve years ago and although it was initially budgeted at around 8,724 million dollars, the Mexican Institute of Competitiveness (Imco) considered that the budget would have increased to 30,000 million dollars.

According to López Obrador, the project will bring prosperity to one of the most historically forgotten areas of the country: the Mexican southeast.