Sheinbaum Supervises the Cargo Maya Train Before Traveling to the World Cup Final
This article by Néstor Jiménez originally appeared in the July 18, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
Puerto Morelos, QR.— Before beginning her trip to the United States to attend the final of the 2026 Football World Cup on Sunday, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo on Saturday supervised in Puerto Morelos the arrival of the first 12 locomotives of the Maya Train cargo service and held a private meeting with the governors of the five southeastern states through which the rail project runs.
In a video posted on her X account, the president highlighted the progress of the works and announced that the new units are already taking part in construction tasks.
“We have great news for you: the first 12 locomotives of the Maya Train cargo service have arrived, and it already has very significant progress. In fact, these locomotives are already transporting part of the material for the construction of the Maya Train cargo service,” she said.
Accompanied by the Secretary of National Defense, General Ricardo Trevilla Trejo; the commander of the Felipe Ángeles Engineers Group, General Gustavo Ricardo Vallejo Suárez; the director general of the Maya Train, General Óscar David Lozano Águila; the head of the Regulatory Agency for Rail Transport, Andrés Lajous Loaeza, and governors Mara Lezama, Joaquín Díaz Mena, Layda Sansores, Javier May, and Eduardo Ramírez, Sheinbaum emphasized that the cargo project will begin operations early next year.
“These are the five states through which the Maya Train passenger service runs, and very soon, in January, the cargo train will be inaugurated,” she said.
The president described the arrival of the locomotives as “great news for the southeast of Mexico and for the whole country.”
Earlier, Sheinbaum held a working meeting with the southeastern governors, though no details were released about the topics addressed.
The president is expected to travel to the United States in the coming hours, where she will attend the World Cup final on Sunday, at the invitation of President Donald Trump, to be played in New Jersey.
Because of that trip, the president canceled the public activities she had planned for this weekend, among them a press conference dedicated to the problem of sargassum on the coasts of Quintana Roo and other matters. According to her official agenda, she has no public events scheduled for this Saturday.
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