*Number of people using the train is currently on the rise
*Mayan train created 44,000 direct jobs and 18,000 indirect jobs
*One of the objectives of the project is to bring wellbeing to native communities
*Mayan train is consolidating its position as an important tourist link
*Mayan train created 44,000 direct jobs and 18,000 indirect jobs
*One of the objectives of the project is to bring wellbeing to native communities
*Mayan train is consolidating its position as an important tourist link
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00:00And the Mayan train, the emblematic work of former President Andres Manuel López Obrador,
00:06has been in operation for a year, and the current president, Claudia Sheinbaum, highlighted
00:09its value beyond transportation.
00:11Let's see.
00:14The Mexican president showed on this map how the Mayan train was completed after the inauguration
00:21of sections six and seven of this flagship project of the so-called fourth transformation
00:26of Mexico's public life.
00:27The train is the recognition of the Mayan culture.
00:35This idea that the Spaniards arrived and brought civilization is totally erroneous and wrong,
00:40and the only thing it leads to is to give permanence to the discrimination that came
00:44with the colony.
00:50As of last August, 340,000 passengers had used this flagship facility.
00:55A few hours before its first anniversary, it was reported that the figure reached more
00:59than 600,000, 20 percent of the estimated goal of 3 million people.
01:06This dynamic of linkage with our airports, with the resorts that are in our state, which
01:12have a lot to offer in terms of tourism, is already beginning to be generated.
01:20The Mayan train created 44,000 direct jobs and 18,000 indirect jobs, a figure that will
01:27increase with the startup of the Mayan hotels along the route.
01:33The Mayan train also means social justice because it provides welfare and development
01:38with justice for the communities and peoples of southeastern Mexico.
01:47The work, which took four years, has as one of its objectives to bring welfare to the
01:51native communities and to rescue the archaeological pieces found during construction.
01:57And today the 1,554 kilometers of railroads, social justice and narrowing the inequality
02:04gaps have been achieved.
02:10The Mayan train is consolidating its position as an important tourist link through vacation
02:15packages.
02:16In spite of the criticisms made by some people.
02:20There's no place here to have a sandwich or a coffee, nothing.
02:25Environmental groups have denounced the environmental damage caused by the project.
02:29Although according to the government, 500 million trees have been reforested to repair
02:33the environmental damage.