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.
Audio production: Gemaly Padua Uscanga
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Extractivism, Megaprojects and Indigenous Peoples in the 21st Century
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Defending the Chimalapas Against Resource Extractivism and Energy Colonialism
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Histories of Dispossession and Extractivism in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
The Construction of the Interoceanic Transport Corridor and its Conflicts
Women’s Safety and Socioenvironmental Conflicts
Megaprojects - What’s Wrong With Them?
The Interoceanic Corridor Infrastructure Project - How Women Perceive and Think about it
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