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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Train endangers some of Mexico's oldest pre-historic sites

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Mexican government has invoked national security powers to forge ahead with a tourist train along the Caribbean coast that threatens extensive caves where some of the oldest human remains in North America have been discovered.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is racing to finish his Maya Train project in the remaining two years of his term over the objections of environmentalists, cave divers and archaeologists.

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