MEXICO CITY — Residents of 84 municipalities in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula are scheduled to vote this weekend on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's ambitious Mayan Train project. Already in the works for a year, the project's future is in the hands of the people who would be most affected by it, López Obrador said Friday. But critics question whether communities in the region have all the information they need to make a decision., and say it poses possible environmental risks and could drive land speculation. The Mayan Train would run 950 miles (1,525 kilometers) around the peninsula connecting the white-sand beaches of the Mayan Riviera resorts with archaeological sites in the interior and the colonial city of Merida.

Source: International New York Times December 13, 2019 18:56 UTC