AMLO Speech in Oaxaca Interrupted by Transisthmic Train Workers
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AMLO Speech in Oaxaca Interrupted by Transisthmic Train Workers

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Thu, 06/17/2021 - 18:20

This weekend, a speech given by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the Mitla-Tehuantepec highway, currently under construction, in Oaxaca was interrupted by workers from the Transisthmic Train project. The interruption was to protest the alleged lack of payment for their labor that goes back at least nine months and amounts to over MX$1 million (US$48,950). 

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Oaxaca’s Highway Infrastructure to Receive Boost

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