Sortuz (Nov 2024)
The railway and legal challenges in southern Mexico: Campeche and Yucatán
Abstract
In the second half of the 19th century, in the Yucatecan peninsula of Mexico, within the states of Campeche and Yucatan, railroads full of wagons filled with bales of the henequen plant mainly crossed. What is the experience of legal issues related to railroad construction in the 19th century and later centuries, especially of the current development project? The question contributes to the current debate about the impact of the Mayan Train – underway since the end of 2023 – on the social, economic and legal dimension of Southern Mexico.
