AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoWomen in Agriculture: Guatemalan Q’eqchi’ farmer Aurelia Beb Tec grows cacao on land returned to her community through reparations after decades of dispossession and war. Her story is part of a portrait series on women farmers across the Americas. Maya Heritage: A new study finds that cinnabar, the mercury-rich red pigment used by the ancient Maya, left long-lasting contamination in lakes on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Earlier research has also documented mercury pollution at Tikal in Guatemala. Indigenous Land Rights: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has sent a case involving the forced eviction of 14 Maya Q’eqchi’ communities in Alta Verapaz to the regional court. The evictions cleared land for sugarcane plantations and cost families crops that sustained their food security. Literary Legacy: France has returned the remains of Guatemalan Nobel laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias to his family.
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