A little more than a year ago, I accompanied archaeologist Richard Hansen on one of his frequent expeditions to the El Mirador region, in the Petén jungle of Guatemala bordering Mexico, which Hansen believes was the cradle of ancient Mayan civilization.
I accompanied archaeologist Richard Hansen on one of his frequent expeditions to the El Mirador region
rushed the stage, seized our microphones, threw chairs, knocked over the loudspeakers and hit one of the stage crew. “They have misrepresented everything,” Hansen told me. On the contrary, Hansen fears that big capital investment in the region “must be avoided at all costs.” Not only would it interfere with his own work, but he is convinced that an invasion of new highways, airports, hotels and recreation areas would destroy the surrounding jungle.
That proposal — which was nothing more than a proposal — has earned him many enemies and spawned verbal attacks and even some death threats. On my last trip, one of the government guards who asked not to be identified told me that he and his colleagues frequently see aircraft unloading drugs in the area, but that they can’t do anything. “We have neither weapons nor authority to intervene,” he told me. Hansen‘s archaeological team maintains a group of 16 guards in the area to try to protect the site and reduce the impact of illegal activities.
sponsored by Sen. James M. Inhofe . Its stated goal was “to foster collaborative research efforts between the United States and local entities to create a sustainable tourism model that provides controlled, low-impact access to the archaeological sites of the Mirador-Calakmul basin in Central America, with an emphasis on providing economic opportunities to communities in and around the basin.
One day before the incident at the book festival, Hansen and archaeologists Enrique Hernández, an expert on the El Mirador causeways, and Beatriz Balcarcel, a specialist on the Acropolis, met with a group of approximately 300 people of Mayan origin in Los Angeles to publicize their proposals.
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