Symbol copyright AFP/Getty Photographs Image caption A Standard Mayan ceremony was held to release the four-12 months venture
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has introduced the Maya Educate – an formidable project to build a railway thru 5 south-jap states.
At an indigenous ceremony near the traditional Mayan ruins of Palenque, he stated this may help create loads of thousands of jobs.
The 1,525km (950-mile) railway will link Palenque and the tourist hotel of Cancún on the Caribbean coast.
But fighters warn it might damage the region’s necessary biosphere.
A third of the deliberate direction passes via pristine jungle, and the owners of the land, the Maya other people, say they have got now not been consulted.
