As Mexico grapples with the economic costs of the pandemic, a controversy brews over federal budget cuts. One project left intact, an interoceanic high-speed rail corridor, threatens the environment and Indigenous communities in the country’s south. Reporter Shannon Young reports from the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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