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I'm John Bachelor.

Mary Anastasio Grady, the America's editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal

editorial page takes us to the My. as editor,

it on columnist for the Wall Street Journal editorial page takes us to the Mayan train.

This is a project I first learned about from Mary early in the presidency of Lopez-oprador, Amlo, and is back in the news oddly.

Mariah, very good evening to you.

What was the Mayan train concept that Mr. Amlo brought to office many years ago.

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John.

Well, the Mayen train is kind of a Lopez-Obrador vanity

project.

He decided he wanted to train there. A lot of people on the other side of the aisle disagreed with him and said that

you know that was spending a lot of money on something that didn't really have economic justification, but he wanted to build this train.

And so he went to build it there and then of course a lot of the hotel owners pushed back against

him because the train was going, you know, right in front of their hotels. So then he moved it to the

closer and in not to the interior but closer away from the where the hotels are and ended up

destroying a lot of pristine jungles and you know and basically mowing down

the rights of the indigenous communities that live there and so forth.

So it's been quite a controversial project.

Now we come to connect this to a company that makes a lot of money, Alabama-based

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