López Obrador’s Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard rushed a Mexico City subway line to completion in 2012 before he left office as mayor. Nobody knows how many tourists will really use it.Ī rush to complete projects before a politician’s term ends is not uncommon in Mexico, but has proved dangerous in the past. No comprehensive environmental impact statement or feasibility plan was ever drawn up for the project. So when his Maya Train tourist project ran into problems - engineers found they couldn’t build an elevated stretch along the Caribbean coast because it would mean closing down the region’s only highway - they simply began running the line through the low jungle. “He has said several times, this is not just another administration this is a revolution.” “Because of López Obrador’s revolutionary rush to deliver everything he offered in six years, which is obviously impossible, he has done everything in an improvised way,” said political analyst José Antonio Crespo. The army will actually own and operate some of the projects after they’re finished. He sees himself as leading a historic, irreversible “transformation” of Mexico, and he has turned to building projects - and the army - to guard that legacy.
It is one of four keystone projects he is racing to finish before his term ends in 2024 - the airport, an oil refinery, a tourist train in the Yucatan Peninsula and a train linking Gulf coast and Pacific seaports - reflecting his vision that his is not just a normal, six-year presidential term.
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