Mexico's most ambitious and controversial infrastructure project — the Tren Maya connecting tourist hubs across the Yucatán Peninsula. Environmental impact, indigenous displacement, and the billion-dollar bet on rail.
Mayan Train
Mexico’s Environmental Impact Assessment looks terrific on paper and operates like a speed bump made of sponge in practice — a legal framework where developers navigate 400-page documents with the enthusiasm of tourists filling out customs forms, knowing nobody’s reading too carefully.
Quintana Roo
If cenotes could file police reports, the docket would wrap around the Yucatán twice. A $30 billion railway, concrete-hungry developers, and 10,000 sacred sinkholes — and the underworld is losing.