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Mexico's president goes full-steam ahead with Mayan train

by Associated Press
| June 3, 2020 7:27 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula remember riding trains to visit relatives or sell their produce decades ago, so when President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made a nostalgic pitch to build a “Mayan train” through the region's jungles the mainly indigenous residents were initially receptive to the idea.

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