The issue has reignited longstanding concerns over overlapping systems of governance in indigenous communities, particularly ...

The alcalde of Indian Creek in Southern Belize was reportedly kidnapped from his farm on Monday, April 13, 2026.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LAKE WORTH BEACH — Olga Perez has spent the past 20 years helping Florida government agencies, hospitals and nonprofits work with ...

The design for the proposed Maya Museum in Guatemala (via Harry Gugger Studio website) “We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos,” Maya human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú said in ...

The National Garifuna Council (NGC) and the Belize National Indigenous Council (BENIC) issued a statement today expressing grave concern regarding the disturbing reports emerging from Indian Creek ...

Recent elections in Honduras have returned right-wing leadership to power, with immediate implications for the autonomy of ...

For millennia, the Maya people of Guatemala have been practising a unique agricultural system that fuses sustainability, climate resilience and environmental preservation. Based on the ...

Mayan lives: continuity and change -- Generation of crisis in the central highlands of Chiapas: the cases of Chamula and Zinacantán, 1974-2000 / Jan Rus, George A. Collier -- Between civil ...

At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbolism mingled at the altar as the deacon — his wife beside him — read the gospel in his native Tsotsil ...