The governor Mara Lezama announced a financing and training program for fishing, agricultural, artisanal and tourist services cooperatives of local communities in Quintana Roo so that they can integrate into the development that the operation of the Mayan Train will bring with it.
“The government of Quintana Roo will make resources, credits and training available, in addition to promoting job creation and social innovation. This new model of support for cooperatives will allow us to work intensively on the development of rural areas and common lands”, stated the president.
“The new support model for cooperatives promotes autonomous and transparent management so that those who want to organize themselves to produce and offer services make collective decisions and distribute profits equitably. The objective is to promote a model of social support that is useful, that professionally and economically strengthens the ejidos, the communities, the workers’ organizations and the cooperatives that belong mostly or exclusively to the workers”.
The president explained that the network has already begun to integrate the communities, since the train will require kitchens or hotels that house the thousands of tourists, it will bring the Mayan Train to the communities of the 11 municipalities of the state.
In addition to the fact that local and artisan agricultural producers will be able to transport their merchandise in train wagons to distribute them in the tourist centers in the north of the state such as Cancun or the Riviera Maya.
Lezama Espinosa highlighted the benefits of the Mayan Train as a fundamental project for the economic and social future of the region, for jobs, of which 109,000 have been created in the five entities through which the train will make its 1,554-kilometer journey. In addition, once in operation, thousands of permanent jobs are expected, with section 4, concentrated in Quintana Roo, being the one with the most work will generate 62,000 jobs.
The president also highlighted the social impact of the Mayan Train, focusing on reducing inequality gaps and the fight against poverty. In a post-pandemic context, where recovery strategies and economic and social development are required, the project has allowed a faster and more solid recovery in Quintana Roo.
Exit to the sea
During the same conference, President López Obrador also announced that an artisan road is going to be built, “the master builders of Oaxaca are going to help us to make an artisan road from Felipe Carrillo Puerto to Vigía Chico, which was the port, it is the port of injustice, of sadness, because that’s where they took from Veracruz all the prisoners opposed to the Porfiriato, there they took the prisoners of the Río Blanco strike, all the leaders, because it was tropical Siberia, Quintana Roo”.
Said road will provide an outlet to the sea for the municipality of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, which for decades requested that this outlet to the sea be built.
