Work Begins on Controversial Palenque-San Cristóbal Superhighway Link to Maya Train

The way is being paved for the controversial highway with lack of information and proper consultation with the communities involved. It will pass through seven environmentally protected areas. Contrary to government claims that its aim is to bring tourism to the state, affected communities believe the real purpose is to facilitate mining projects.

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El Común (The Common) at the Foot of the Mountain

But, if you ask the parties that now converge in those foundations of an operating room in the Lacandon Jungle.  If you ask them who or why they did this; why they contributed their work; why they sweated in the sun; why they got wet in the rain… why they committed themselves to something that seemed a delusion, a folly, a dream.

Perhaps they will answer -in many languages, in many colors, in many geographies, in many calendars, in many ways-: “For life.”

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