Residents of the neighborhoods of Camino Real, La Ermita and Santa Lucía in Campeche, they gave President Andrés Manuel López Obrador a letter asking him to change the course of a stretch of the Maya Train so that his houses are not demolished.
This Saturday, the representative carried out the supervision of the work of the Maya Train, from Calkiní, Campeche. There villagers of the neighborhoods intercepted their van to deliver the mission.
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“We wrote to him with great fear of being evicted by the Maya Train Project. We want to be very clear with you, as a collective we are not against your project because we know that it will help boost the economy by generating sources of work in our state of Campeche. (…) we all agree to defend our heritage and neighborhoods that we have inhabited for many generations.
“That documents, titles of ownership, historical evidence embodied in the official newspaper of the State of Campeche, indicate the age of these neighborhoods and their inhabitants since before the railway,” the letter states.
The members of the collective Tres Barrios said that they are not against the train, but that they seek to defend their heritage, because they have lived there for generations.
Read: We’re not leaving our homes by the Maya Train: Campeche villagers reject relocation
Dozens of families have lived for decades by the train tracks in those three neighborhoods. But they came first, some have property titles from the late 1800s.
The Maya Train, run by the National Tourism Development Fund (Fonatur), will pass through the area and the houses get in the way. The section of the mega construction that will pass through that area is the 2, which has already been licensed and won by the consortium composed of Operadora CICSA S.A. de C.V. de Grupo Carso, by Carlos Slim, in partnership agreement with FCC Construcción S.A.
“It is five or four generations that we have lived here. In 1938, at the bee of General Lázaro Cárdenas, they made the laying of tracks and did not give us a penny because according to it was a donation,” he told Animal Politics, Guadeloupe, last September.
With the Maya Train there will be no way to live together, the speed it will reach will be more than 100 kilometers per hour and it is already stipulated that on 20 meters on one side and 20 meters on the other of the track there can be neither houses nor anything. If the project is done here, families would have to leave and many don’t want to.
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