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The promise of Mexico’s Tren Maya has gone off the rails

Séamus Bellamy
Jun 08, 2026
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Four years ago, I drove back to Canada after living for a time in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Taking the highway north, adjacent to the coast—often lousy with crooked state and municipal cops looking for a bribe, bandits and cartel bullshit—tends to be a more dangerous of the options available to travellers. At the time th…

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