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Mexico wants to run a tourist train through its Mayan heartland — should it?

  • Written by Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Arkansas

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has a dream for the Yucatan Peninsula. He wants to build a train that will leverage the tourism economy of Cancun by bringing more visitors inland to the colonial cities, Mayan villages and archaeological sites that dot the region.

The Yucatan is a unique Mexican cultural crossroads. Many Maya...

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