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Report: Mexico’s President to Require Private Freight Companies to Offer Passenger Service (UPDATED, 11/21)
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Nov. 8 that he will “require private rail companies that mostly carry freight to offer passenger service or else have the government schedule its own trains on their tracks,” according to an Associated Press (AP) report.