On July 1st of this year, the free trade agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada, known as USMCA, came into force, an update of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that was signed 26 years ago.
In the middle of the month of November of this year, the government of the "Fourth Transformation" convened the authorities and representative institutions of the municipalities and indigenous communities belonging to the indigenous Maya, Ch'ol, Tseltal, and Tsotsil, among other groups, from the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo, located in the area of the "Mayan Train Development Project".