Tren Maya - Revision history

Florez4747: /* Indigenous Communities */

2023-08-06T20:05:06Z

Indigenous Communities

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	According to a study examining the territorial rights of the 14,900,000 Indigenous people in Mexico, there have been three other recent cases of dispossession and displacement: the Mining Law of 2005, the energy reform of 2013, and the National Water Law in 2015. Nearly 120 years after the Maya Wars, or “Caste Wars,” ended, the Mexican government is rolling full steam ahead with its 1,550 km rail line that will carry passengers and cargo throughout 5 states at speeds ranging from 120-160 km per hour. The train has six different lines with a projected 15-18 stops, and a missing Environmental Impact Assessment.<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref></Blockquote>		According to a study examining the territorial rights of the 14,900,000 Indigenous people in Mexico, there have been three other recent cases of dispossession and displacement: the Mining Law of 2005, the energy reform of 2013, and the National Water Law in 2015. Nearly 120 years after the Maya Wars, or “Caste Wars,” ended, the Mexican government is rolling full steam ahead with its 1,550 km rail line that will carry passengers and cargo throughout 5 states at speeds ranging from 120-160 km per hour. The train has six different lines with a projected 15-18 stops, and a missing Environmental Impact Assessment.<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref></Blockquote>


			== Effects on Agriculture ==
			<Blockquote>“The project doesn’t have a clear line of development,” said Juan Rodriguez, a Mayan journalist who covers the Maya Train. “In the long term, we fear the project won’t leave any benefit for the community.” He explained that the economy in the very southern part of Mexico is primarily based on agriculture. When the train starts offering other jobs involving railroad construction and tourism, the focus of the region will move away from agriculture, and farming will suffer. <br><br>

			In fact, it already has. Juan Manuel Jaerez Campos, a representative of an agricultural cooperative in the Chetumal state, explained that 50 percent of sugarcane workers – around 1,400 people – switched jobs to help construct the Maya Train. Since the Chetumal state produces 90 percent of the sugarcane grown in Mexico, this loss of farmers slowed down the growing and harvesting process. The railroad route also lengthened the time and distance of how farmers get to and from their fields, further slowing harvest, Campos said.<Ref>https://climatechange.medill.northwestern.edu/maya-train-raises-questions-about-maya-land-people-and-rights/</Ref></Blockquote>

	= Cost of Project =		= Cost of Project =

Florez4747: /* Resistance to Construction */

2023-08-06T19:50:10Z

Resistance to Construction

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	<Blockquote>Mena thinks naming this train with the word Maya is wrong. “It doesn’t have anything to do with Maya other than territories that they are stealing,” he says. “It’s important to recognize that these Indigenous communities are disempowered and not able to confront this type of invasion because the social, economic, and political conditions prevent us from mobilizing. It is not easy for the outside world to recognize the resistance process taking place at the local community level.”<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref></Blockquote>		<Blockquote>Mena thinks naming this train with the word Maya is wrong. “It doesn’t have anything to do with Maya other than territories that they are stealing,” he says. “It’s important to recognize that these Indigenous communities are disempowered and not able to confront this type of invasion because the social, economic, and political conditions prevent us from mobilizing. It is not easy for the outside world to recognize the resistance process taking place at the local community level.”<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref></Blockquote>


			https://schoolsforchiapas.org/why-we-oppose-the-mayan-train/

	= Jinko Solar =		= Jinko Solar =

Florez4747: /* Resistance to Construction */

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Resistance to Construction

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			<Blockquote>Mena thinks naming this train with the word Maya is wrong. “It doesn’t have anything to do with Maya other than territories that they are stealing,” he says. “It’s important to recognize that these Indigenous communities are disempowered and not able to confront this type of invasion because the social, economic, and political conditions prevent us from mobilizing. It is not easy for the outside world to recognize the resistance process taking place at the local community level.”<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref></Blockquote>


	= Jinko Solar =		= Jinko Solar =

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Cenotes

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	== Cenotes ==		== Cenotes ==
			<Blockquote>Outside of the university, the railroad has caused a flare-up of emotion from local engineers and biologists, as well as U.S. scientists. “We should all worry about building a train near a cenote,” says Jorge Manuel Mezquita Garma, an engineer from Mexico’s National Council of Engineers. The geology of the Yucatan is laced with limestone at the surface. Its permeable nature means it can easily break down; when limestone caves in, a cenote is born. Cenotes are revered by the Maya and are considered spiritual places. <br><br>

			Northwestern University professor and environmental scientist, Patricia Beadows, a cenote and cave explorer, has spent decades studying the Yucatan’s aquifer and underground network of cenotes. She fears that the structural integrity of the limestone cannot withstand the railroad and the trains running on it, and that collapse is not a matter of if, but when. “A collapse will happen,” Beadows says.<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref></Blockquote>

	== Tram Five ==		== Tram Five ==

Florez4747: /* Environmental Impact */

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Environmental Impact

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	On Tuesday, Lopez Obrador said the project had been deemed a matter of national security, which could allow development to proceed despite a series of legal injunctions stalling construction.<Ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/activists-say-mexico-not-enforcing-environmental-laws-related-mayan-train-2022-07-21/</Ref></Blockquote>		On Tuesday, Lopez Obrador said the project had been deemed a matter of national security, which could allow development to proceed despite a series of legal injunctions stalling construction.<Ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/activists-say-mexico-not-enforcing-environmental-laws-related-mayan-train-2022-07-21/</Ref></Blockquote>


			== Cenotes ==

Florez4747: /* Indigenous Communities */

2023-08-06T19:29:41Z

Indigenous Communities

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	According to a study examining the territorial rights of the 14,900,000 Indigenous people in Mexico, there have been three other recent cases of dispossession and displacement: the Mining Law of 2005, the energy reform of 2013, and the National Water Law in 2015. Nearly 120 years after the Maya Wars, or “Caste Wars,” ended, the Mexican government is rolling full steam ahead with its 1,550 km rail line that will carry passengers and cargo throughout 5 states at speeds ranging from 120-160 km per hour. The train has six different lines with a projected 15-18 stops, and a missing Environmental Impact Assessment.<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref></Blockquote>		According to a study examining the territorial rights of the 14,900,000 Indigenous people in Mexico, there have been three other recent cases of dispossession and displacement: the Mining Law of 2005, the energy reform of 2013, and the National Water Law in 2015. Nearly 120 years after the Maya Wars, or “Caste Wars,” ended, the Mexican government is rolling full steam ahead with its 1,550 km rail line that will carry passengers and cargo throughout 5 states at speeds ranging from 120-160 km per hour. The train has six different lines with a projected 15-18 stops, and a missing Environmental Impact Assessment.<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref></Blockquote>


			= Cost of Project =
			Over the past five years the train's cost has increased substantially; in 2019 the budget was 8 billion USD increasing to 14 billion USD in 2022 and up to 20 billion USD in 2023.<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref>

	= López Obrador =		= López Obrador =

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Indigenous Communities

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	<Blockquote>... the railroad is ripping through jungles and farmland. All of this is transpiring in the shadows of a region that has a painful history of colonialism and conquest, which has deeply affected Maya communities. “Right now, we are experiencing a new invasion,” says Alvaro Mena, a Maya leader of a seed-keeping and territorial defense group, Ka Kuxtal. “This is a historic moment in the Yucatan Peninsula. It is one of the worst [atrocities] against the Mayan People.” <br>		<Blockquote>... the railroad is ripping through jungles and farmland. All of this is transpiring in the shadows of a region that has a painful history of colonialism and conquest, which has deeply affected Maya communities. “Right now, we are experiencing a new invasion,” says Alvaro Mena, a Maya leader of a seed-keeping and territorial defense group, Ka Kuxtal. “This is a historic moment in the Yucatan Peninsula. It is one of the worst [atrocities] against the Mayan People.” <br><br>

	According to a study examining the territorial rights of the 14,900,000 Indigenous people in Mexico, there have been three other recent cases of dispossession and displacement: the Mining Law of 2005, the energy reform of 2013, and the National Water Law in 2015. Nearly 120 years after the Maya Wars, or “Caste Wars,” ended, the Mexican government is rolling full steam ahead with its 1,550 km rail line that will carry passengers and cargo throughout 5 states at speeds ranging from 120-160 km per hour. The train has six different lines with a projected 15-18 stops, and a missing Environmental Impact Assessment.<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref></Blockquote>		According to a study examining the territorial rights of the 14,900,000 Indigenous people in Mexico, there have been three other recent cases of dispossession and displacement: the Mining Law of 2005, the energy reform of 2013, and the National Water Law in 2015. Nearly 120 years after the Maya Wars, or “Caste Wars,” ended, the Mexican government is rolling full steam ahead with its 1,550 km rail line that will carry passengers and cargo throughout 5 states at speeds ranging from 120-160 km per hour. The train has six different lines with a projected 15-18 stops, and a missing Environmental Impact Assessment.<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref></Blockquote>

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Indigenous Communities

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			<Blockquote>... the railroad is ripping through jungles and farmland. All of this is transpiring in the shadows of a region that has a painful history of colonialism and conquest, which has deeply affected Maya communities. “Right now, we are experiencing a new invasion,” says Alvaro Mena, a Maya leader of a seed-keeping and territorial defense group, Ka Kuxtal. “This is a historic moment in the Yucatan Peninsula. It is one of the worst [atrocities] against the Mayan People.” <br>

			According to a study examining the territorial rights of the 14,900,000 Indigenous people in Mexico, there have been three other recent cases of dispossession and displacement: the Mining Law of 2005, the energy reform of 2013, and the National Water Law in 2015. Nearly 120 years after the Maya Wars, or “Caste Wars,” ended, the Mexican government is rolling full steam ahead with its 1,550 km rail line that will carry passengers and cargo throughout 5 states at speeds ranging from 120-160 km per hour. The train has six different lines with a projected 15-18 stops, and a missing Environmental Impact Assessment.<Ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/train-maya-partitions-yucatan-peninsula-and-maya-peoples-each-other-and-their-lands</Ref></Blockquote>

	= López Obrador =		= López Obrador =

Florez4747 at 19:07, 6 August 2023

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			= Jinko Solar =
			<Blockquote>Chinese giant Jinko Solar is involved in disputes with Mayan communities in its attempt to build photovoltaic cell parks in Cuncunul and Valladolid. The constitutional challenge (amparo) filed by the communities halted the project (consisting of 313,140 panels over 246 hectares) until early January, when the federal courts cleared the way for it to proceed.<Ref>https://grain.org/en/article/6423-the-misnamed-mayan-train-multimodal-land-grabbing</Ref></Blockquote>

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Resistance to Construction

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			= Forced Relocations =
			<Blockquote>But, while most Mayans I encountered across the state of Quintana Roo seemed initially supportive of the President’s signature project, after digging a little deeper, several admitted they had concerns. One couple, owners of a popular eatery, said many people were scared to voice any opposition because local politicians were López Obrador supporters. “To question is to ask for trouble,” they said. As small business owners, they said they feared reprisal in the form of extortion—on the rise in Quintana Roo—and sought to avoid making enemies of those in power. <br>

			One of Tulum’s most popular tourist attractions, a cenote park called Dos Ojos (“Two Eyes”), is managed by the Jacinto Pat community. Although the government agreed to divert the railway away from the main Dos Ojos cenotes, the new path will still pass over several other cenotes within the park. <br>

			“Do I personally want the Maya Train? No,” says one Jacinto Pat family figurehead, speaking anonymously out of concern for reprisal. “It will destroy the jungle, our home, and contaminate the cenotes, our life source.” But, he felt like he had no other choice. While the government has played down reports of forced evictions, insisting they were “consensual relocations” many families felt compelled to compromise to avoid a similar fate, he says. “And now we’ve taken the money, there’s nothing we can do.” <br>

			Deep inside Dos Ojos park, Gabriel Mazón is one of the few residents who refused to part with his portion of land. “I say this with all due respect: as a people, we have allowed ourselves to be bought,” he says. “But there is no support from indigenous people [for Maya Train]. If our ancestors could see what is being done in their name, they would die of sadness, knowing how they have been profaned, prostituted, and their culture and traditions used,” says Mazón. “We are little more than a brand or marketing slogan for the government. The people have already been paid off. There will be no more benefits. All we have left to wait for now is the invasion.”<Ref>https://time.com/6245748/maya-train-tulum-yucatan-indigenous-people-land/</Ref></Blockquote>

	= Sources =		= Sources =