Truck drivers in Mexico block major highways to protest the government's failure to pay bills

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Truck drivers blocked some major highways in central Mexico on Tuesday to protest that the government hasn’t paid them for work they did on a tourist train line.

The protest by truckers blocked two major highways leading north out of Mexico City for a few hours Tuesday morning, and other highways on the Yucatan Peninsula, where they had worked carrying gravel and other materials for the government's Maya Train project.

President Claudia Sheinbaum acknowledged Tuesday that the subcontractor companies that hired the truck drivers hadn't paid them because the government owed them money.

“The payments to the companies have started, so that they, in turn, can pay the truck drivers,” Sheinbaum said.