Mexico is acknowledging that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors because of cartel violence or land disputes.

Mexico’s government has acknowledged that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors because of a toxic mix of cartel violence and land disputes.

But two tourist guides in the southern state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, say two other sites that the government claims are still open to visitors can only be reached by passing though drug gang checkpoints.

The explosion of drug cartel violence in Chiapas since last year has left the Yaxchilán ruin site completely cut off, the government conceded Friday.

  • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net
    52·
    11 months ago

    I think you’re assuming a lot about the landowner and ignoring the many native people who benefit from the tourism

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      51·
      11 months ago

      And those native people wouldn’t benefit from the same tourism if they owned the land themselves?

      What am I assuming exactly? The land used to belong to the Mayan people, hence a city being there, and now it belongs to one rich landowner. Or do you dispute the entire history of the conquest of Central America?