Cartel Carnage and State Colonialism in the #Lacandon Area of #Chiapas, #Mexico: #Indigenous Survivance
"Mexico is now officially the world's most dangerous place to be an environmental defender."
Guest: #RichardStahlerSholk of the #SchoolOfChiapas
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #FirstPeoples #NativeAmericans #Maya #LandDefenders #megaprojects #MayaTrain #cartels #EZLN #Zapatistas #ColonialViolence #HumanTrafficking #NarcoTrafficking
United Fruit Company documentary filmed in 1949.
Maya ruins, the Lacandon Maya people, and footage of the murals of Bonampak shortly after global discovery.
Less than 1,000 members of the #Lacandon people live in the jungles of the State of #Chiapas, #Mexico where they remained practically isolated until well advanced the 20th century. Their language (jach t’aan – the “real speech”) is similar to that of the #Yucatec #Maya, their closest relatives within the #Mayan group. Many of them still worship gods such as “Hachakyum” - a solar deity - and consider the archaeological sites of Palenque and Bonampak as the sacred sites of their ancestors.
