“The Land is Not For Sale”: Defenders in the Face of the Mis-named Mayan Train
Avispa Midia interviews Mayan land defenders of the CNI of their experience with the mis-named megaproject, the Mayan Train.
Avispa Midia interviews Mayan land defenders of the CNI of their experience with the mis-named megaproject, the Mayan Train.
The International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature met in Valladolid, Yucatán this weekend for a hearing on the impacts of the Mayan Train – it holds the Mexican State responsible for the violation of individual and collective human rights, the rights of nature and the biocultural rights of the Mayan people, and demands immediate suspension of the project.
Raúl Zibechi calls on us to ask: What is the State that corresponds to this mafia capitalism, which destroys everything to accumulate more and more capital?
It is a State dedicated to war and to dispossession against those at the bottom.