Mexico’s AMLO Expropriates Private Lands to Build Train Stations
- Expropriation seeks to guarantee connectivity to new airport
- Infrastructure Ministry will pay for the expropriated assets
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador expropriated privately-owned land in the state of Mexico to build commuter train stations, fueling an already tense political climate just three days after he ordered the seizure of part of a rail line owned by billionaire German Larrea’s Grupo Mexico SAB.
The expropriation of more than 113,000 square meters in three municipalities was in response to a request by the country’s Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation Ministry (SICT) and seeks to guarantee connectivity to the new Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA), one of Lopez Obrador main public projects, according to a decree published Monday in the nation’s official gazette.