The Third District Court in Yucatan granted a definitive suspension to communities of the entity against the Tren Maya, so the authorities in charge of the project must suspend works in Mérida, Izamal and Chocholá.
Following a hearing on February 19, a judge ruled the suspension of new works in the area in which the amparo trial brought by inhabitants of the three areas of Yucatan is resolved, who complain of lack of information during the public consultation of the Environmental Impact Manifestation (MIA) held in June 2020.
Read more: Communities get suspensions against Tren Maya in Yucatan; Fonatur denies indigenous peoples
The decision to suspend the works is maintained, after on 20 January, the Kanan collective, dedicated to the defence of human rights, obtained an interim suspension in the case.
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THIRD DISTRICT COURT GRANTS YUCATAN RESIDENTS THE DEFINITIVE SUSPENSION OF THE MAYA TRAIN pic.twitter.com/5CtqPZ4Kc2
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Through the organization, the inhabitants accuse the unconstitutionality of the train for lack of transparency and public participation of the consultation.
According to the collective, in the resolution approving the Manifestation of Environmental Impact of the Maya Train, the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) recognized “the absence of information during the public consultation and that it was the responsibility of Fonatur (the National Fund for tourism promotion) not to make available to the environmental authority all project information”.
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