Among the main causes of adaptation to spending, according to the SHCP, are “less resources for the programs: Benito Juárez Basic Education Scholarships for Welfare, Universal Scholarship for Benito Juárez High School Students and the School is Ours.”
Tourism and Mayan Train earn more than 20,000 million pesos extra
In contrast, as of the first semester of 2022, the Ministry of Tourism in charge of the Mayan Train has seen an increase in its budget of almost 20,000 million extra pesos, compared to the original budget of their respective items.
At the beginning of 2022, Tourism had a scheduled expense of 13,485 million pesos, but, after the adjustments, the budget shot up to 52,212 million pesos; an increase of 20,901 million pesos equivalent to 260% of the original.
Specifically, in the branch of Supported Entities, the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) appears with an increase in its budget of 16,702 million pesos, this fund is one of those responsible for the construction of the Mayan Train.
But there is also the Fonatur Tren Maya, whose approved expenditure was 289.5 million pesos, but which, after modifications in the first half of the year, is now 482.5 million pesos.
In fact, the increase in programmable spending by the Ministry of Tourism is due to an “increase in mass passenger transportation projects; pre-investment studies; and infrastructure maintenance. according to the SHCP itself .
It must be remembered that, at the beginning of 2022, the Mayan Train had already assigned its largest budget since the project began, almost 62.942 million pesos, equivalent to 39% of the total cost at that time. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants this work to be completed by the end of 2023.
