With the presence of several federal secretaries involved in the construction of the great work, governors of the five states involved in the Mexican southeast, part of the cabinet, army and navy officers, construction workers and private companies, the convoy was given the starting flag.

Several speakers from the leaders and executives who participated in the historic road spoke on behalf of their representatives, while the president made the introduction of everything that had been done in the midst of great joy for the completion of a work that was done in record time and with an impressive quality and beauty.

López Obrador did not hide his great pleasure to be in Campeche on this day, which he described as truly historic because it is a work that in its entirety comprises 1,554 kilometers of two-track railway lines.

After this first section, he said, we are going to inaugurate this same month the Cancun-Palenque section and then from Cancun to Chetumal through the jungle side and the border with Guatemala until the entire circuit is completed in February of next year, he assured.

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