Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador questioned the Ferromex company this Wednesday for suspending 60 freight trains due to the presence of more than 4,000 migrants on the tracks or in cars amid a new wave of migration.

“The owners of the trains, in a strange, unusual way, put out a bulletin announcing that the trains would stop, which (they didn’t) even when the teachers took over the tracks there in Michoacán for a number of days, they didn’t have any bulletin,” the president said at his daily press conference.

López Obrador criticized Ferromex’s statement, which shut down the railways on Tuesday “in light of the remarkable increase in the number of migrants concentrated in different regions of the country and the serious risk this poses to their integrity.”

The company has documented “approximately half a dozen unfortunate cases of injuries or deaths” in recent days, in addition to more than 1,500 migrants in train cars and operating areas in Coahuila, more than 800 in Guanajuato, almost 800 in Aguascalientes and about 1,000 in Chihuahua.

He also pointed out that the accumulation of migrants has “increased significantly” in recent days and that there have been incidents between groups of people who, individually or in families, including girls and boys, despite the serious danger on their route with cargo in the boarded the train. that this implies.

Increase in migrants

Ferromex is part of Grupo México of tycoon Germán Larrea, known as the second richest Mexican and with whom López Obrador has had disagreements in the past.

“It is a decision that Ferromex has made, no (it could affect), what matters to us is not the trains, we care about the migrants,” the president said on the issue.

Just last June, Grupo México transferred 120 kilometers of three railway lines in the southeast of the country to the occupying government of Mexico for the construction of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, one of López Obrador’s emblematic projects.

This dramatic situation reflects a new wave of migration in Mexico, where the flow of migration through the country to the United States has recovered after the initial decline caused last May by the expiration of US Title 42. (JO)