{"id":591847,"date":"2023-09-20T01:32:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T22:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mexican-railroad-suspends-freight-service-citing-migrant-safety\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T01:32:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T22:32:39","slug":"mexican-railroad-suspends-freight-service-citing-migrant-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mexican-railroad-suspends-freight-service-citing-migrant-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mexican railroad suspends freight service citing migrant safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/649cd3207d28b3.61290020-e1695162742824.jpeg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A major Mexican railroad company has temporarily stopped 60 trains on south-to-north routes because of rising deaths and injuries of freighthopping migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Ferromex, a company that operates several routes that head to five U.S.-Mexico border crossings,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMexico_Prensa\/status\/1704229114029183193\">announced Tuesday it was stopping the 60 trains<\/a>, with cargo capacity equivalent to 1,800 trucks, because of the \u201cnotable increase of migrant persons concentrated in several regions of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIn recent days nearly a half dozen regrettable cases of injury or death were registered among the groups of people who on an individual basis or in families, including girls and boys, boarded freight trains on their way north, despite the grave danger that implies,\u201d read a statement by the company.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, the company said groups of migrants have congregated in rail yards and on trains, including more than 1,500 people in Torre\u00f3n, Coahuila, 200 miles south of the international border; 800 people in Irapuato, Guanajuato in central Mexico, around 1,000 people in the central northern state of Aguascalientes, and more than 1,000 people on the route between Chihuahua and Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, the city that borders El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it had informed its clients about interruptions to supply lines and international commerce.<\/p>\n<p>In early 2023, Mexico surpassed Canada and China as the top United States trading partner, with $263 billion in bilateral trade over the first four months of the year, according to a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasfed.org\/research\/economics\/2023\/0711\">report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican economy is largely dependent on trade with the United States, as well as remittances \u2013 money sent to friends and relatives in Mexico \u2013 sent by Mexicans in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s growth as a U.S. trade partner is in large part due to nearly 30 years of free trade between the two countries, first under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and more recently under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and to growing investment in the country in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S.-China trade war.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Migration has over the past decade played a key role in the bilateral trade relationship, with both phenomena often leveraged against each other in U.S.-Mexico negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador surged the National Guard \u2013 a militarized police force \u2013 to interdict migrants after former President Trump threatened commercial retaliation over the number of South and Central American migrants crossing the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ferromex\u2019s corporate ownership and L\u00f3pez Obrador have also recently butted heads.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In May, L\u00f3pez Obrador revoked a federal concession that allowed a Ferromex sister company to operate a strategic railway in southern Mexico, and dispatched the military to occupy that railway\u2019s installations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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