Valentín Campa is a future

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of the

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in the borough of

Álvaro Obregón Álvaro Obregón Salido (; 17 February 1880 – 17 July 1928) better known as Álvaro Obregón was a Sonoran-born general in the Mexican Revolution. A pragmatic centrist, natural soldier, and able politician, he became the 46th President of Me ...

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. It will be an underground station with two

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s, served by Line 12 (the Golden Line), between

and

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stations. It will serve the ''colonias'' of Carola and Francisco Villa. The station will be named after

Valentín Campa Valentín Campa Salazar (14 February 1904 – 25 November 1999) was a Mexican railway union leader and presidential candidate. Along with Demetrio Vallejo, he was considered one of the leaders of the 1958 railway strikes. Campa was also the ...

, a railway union leader. The expansion of Line 12 was approved in March 2013 and started in April 2016, and the station is expected to open in December 2023. The station was formerly known as Benvenuto Cellini. Like the rest of the line, Valentín Campa station will be

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