Hailed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a beacon of prosperity, the environmental cost of the railway has bitterly divided communities along its route.
Pitched as a way to develop the country’s poorest region, the Maya Train is threatened by a ballooning budget and rushed construction over fragile terrain. But Mexico’s president has refused to slow it down.
The Category 1 storm was expected to dump up to 12 inches of rain on some parts of the Yucatán by Tuesday before its projected landfall in the Gulf States.
