Shortly after, the Assembly of Defenders of the Múuch Xíinbal Maya Territory filed complaints with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The Whatsapp Mobile Number List counteroffensive of the López Obrador government has resorted to seeking support for the Mayan Train within the communities themselves. At the beginning of July, the newspaper La Jornada reported that 64 Mayan villages, from the Tzeltal and Chol ethnic groups of Calakmul, in the state of Campeche, supported the construction of the railway.
The government also facilitated the creation of a Committee for the Defense of the Mayan Train which, in order to combat dissident communities, filed a Whatsapp Mobile Number List complaint for human rights violations against some indigenous peoples Whatsapp Mobile Number List. The conflict has escalated after the accusations by López Obrador and the presidential spokesman, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, against non-governmental organizations, civil society associations and the media that attribute environmental and human rights damage to the megaproject.
They have responded by asking the government for a public apology and demanding proof that the external financing they receive is to oppose the construction of the Mayan Train. The resignation of the well-known and respected environmentalist Víctor Toledo from the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources has been interpreted as another sign Whatsapp Mobile Number List of opposition to the railway project within the cabinet itself. In the midst of the discursive pastorals around the impulse to social development that the Mayan Train will bring when the pandemic is reduced, this struggle takes place in which human rights are used by one and the other. For communitarians, it is about the set of rights that protect natural resources and the uses and customs of the peoples.