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Employees who work for
Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab, as well as the SCT, have criticized management for the deterioration and lack of maintenance of railway infrastructure, citing the potential of petrochemical derailment and the loss of life. The Secretary General of the railway union of Yucatán, has
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in
October 2005. The hurricane damaged over 175 miles (282 km) of track and Genesee & Wyoming was not financially capable to repair the railroad. On 25 June 2007, Genesee & Wyoming Inc announced it was giving up its 30-year concession and liquidating FCCM SA by the end of 2007. Operation
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September 2014, The Secretary of Telecommunications and Transportation announced that the federal government was going to invest 6 billion pesos to rehabilitate the railway in part to deter Central American Immigrants from hitch-hiking on the train, as well as to increase rail cargo speed in the
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By 2016, The
Secretary of Communications and Transportation (SCT) grew impatient about the deterioration of the railroad, as well at the migrant crises in which Central American migrants were riding on top of the trains. By 23 August 2016, The Secretary of Communications and Transportation revoked
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in 2008. In 2012, Secretary of
Communications and Transportation amended the railway concession in order to keep the railways under government control while allowing any potential investor to operate the cargo operations. By 2013, The Secretary of Communications and Transportation announced it had
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the concession to
Viabilis Holdings. Citing that, "For reasons of interest, public utility and national security" as the reason it was revoking the concession. Viabilis Holdings was given 60 days to remove and dispose of property, equipment and facilities owned off the railway.
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criticized
Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab for the decline of speed from thirty-five kilometers per hour to ten kilometers per hour. The National Chamber of the transformation industry cited that the railway derails 200 times per year on average.
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One of the shareholders in
Ferrocarriles Chiapas Mayab, Pedro Topete Vargas, denounced the revocation of its concession as, "an act of revenge" from Secretary of Communications and Transportation
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635:"El conflicto por el Ferrocarril Chiapas-Mayab alcanza a OHL e Infraiber"
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537:"Denuncian trabajadores mal estado en red ferroviaria de 'La Bestia'"
663:"Mexico reclaims migrant-shuttling 'The Beast' railroad concession"
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459:"Unen operación de trenes Chiapas Mayab y del Istmo de Tehuantepec"
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Ferrocarriles
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408:mediasolutions.com.mx
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607:"Aristegui Noticias"
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80:Nacionales de Mexico
585:"Tribuna del Yaqui"
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209:Criticism
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102:Successor
570:Fox News
565:"Latino"
291:28 March
259:Ferrosur
247:See also
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43:Overview
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187:History
158:Website
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