Episode 8 - the Mayan Train: extractivist development, militarisation and division
Padua Uscanga, G. & Uc Be, P.
(4 October 2022)
Episode 8 - the Mayan Train: extractivist development, militarisation and division.
Infrastructure (Re)Worldings.
Host Gemaly Padua Uscanga interviews Pedro Uc Be, poet, writer, philosopher and member of the Assembly of Defenders of the Mayan Territory Múuch’ Xíinbal. They discuss the Tren Maya infrastructure project – a 1,525-kilometre railway intended to boost Mexico’s tourism industry – and its social and environmental impacts on the lives of the Indigenous peoples residing in the Yucatán Peninsula. This podcast is in Spanish.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2022 The Authors |
| Departments | LSE > Academic Departments > Geography and Environment > Latin America and Caribbean Centre |
| Date Deposited | 28 Apr 2023 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/118755 |