Mexico's Yucatan tourist train sinks pilings into relic-filled limestone caves, activists reveal.

Mexican activists have discovered steel and cement pilings from a government project driving through limestone caves on the Yucatan peninsula, which are sensitive to the environment and hold some of the oldest human remains in North America. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised the Maya Train would run on an elevated causeway supported by pilings to avoid damaging the caves and sinkhole lakes, which provide the region's only fresh water source.

January 23, 2024
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