We didn’t expect this, no one ever said. And since we are already on the road to approving initiatives before our time runs out, Morena has just proposed in the Chamber of Deputies to give the Mayan Train to the Army forever.
And I wish it was a joke, but no. The journalist and analyst Juan Ortíz stressed that the initiative was presented today, they are not going to read it and they are going to vote on it. How cool.
Morena proposes giving the Mayan Train to the Army
Around mid-2021 we learned that the Mayan Train would pass into the hands of the Secretary of National Defense, who would have the resources obtained in their hands, for a period of 30 years.
And in those we stayed when suddenly Morena took an initiative out of the hat: that the Army stays with the Mayan Train indefinitely and not only with this work…
As if nothing the afternoon of this April 25 appeared an initiative in the Chamber of Deputies Gazette to reform the Laws of General Ways of Communication, the Regulatory of the Railway Service and the Federal Law of the Federative Entities. It was presented by the deputy Pablo Amílcar Sandoval de Morena.
Proposes adding a paragraph to article 10 of the Railway Service Regulatory Law to establish that the “Assignment title in favor of parastatal entities will have an indefinite validity”.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently spoke of creating a parastatal company that manages, operates and provides airport, aeronautical, railway, tourist and cultural services.
“For example, the Mayan Train, the new Felipe Ángeles Airport, the Palenque Airport, the Chetumal Airport, the new Tulum Airport are going to be part of a company managed by the Secretary of National Defense, because if these assets are we leave Fonatur or the Secretariat of Communications, they can’t stand the first onslaught” said the president in November 2021.
So, it means that once the Army is assigned the administration and exploitation of a work, it will be for an indefinite period.
In addition, the reform establishes that they can only take away the allowance when “proves irrefutably that there is no utility or public interest, general interest, social interest or reasons of national security that justify it”.
In addition, an article 59 Bis is also added to the Federal Law of Parastatal Entities so that the president can directly assignthe provision of public services, as well as the use, exploitation and exploitation of goods subject to the regime of public domain of the Federation” to parastatal companies.
As before, this assignment title will be indefinite and can only be removed for the reasons already mentioned above. So, this applies to the Mayan Train and to all the other priority works that have already been assigned to the Army, such as airports, seaports, etc.
