Chiapas

traditional medicine by Mayan people (Wynberg 2009). This bioprospecting program has upset and outraged people in Chiapas who claim that their indigenous knowledge and resources are being stolen (Wynberg 2009). People who worked and led this project took knowledge from the people of Chiapas and took plant samples with almost nothing in return (Wynberg 2009). This biopiracy and bioprospecting is something that really hurts medicinal healers in the Mayan areas, but it doesn’t stop them from…

the Mayans lived. What that place is called today is Central America which now consists Yucatan, Guatemala, Belize and Southern Mexico (the Chiapas and Tabasco region). The effect geographic setting had on the Mayans were tropical rain forest of the lowlands, which was expanding from the northwestern of Honduras over the Petén of Guatemala, Belize and the Chiapas. This includes cities like Copan, Yinchuan, Tikal and Palenque. Guatemala had highlands, and the Pacific Coast where the Aztec…

in poverty. After his wife and daughter’s death, Hank then decides to impulsively hop on a plane to Mexico where he will stay with his very rich friend, Cesar. While soul searching in Mexico he ends up getting a job in the poverty ridden town of Chiapas. The poor town is filled with Indians trying to sell handmade items in the town square, much of this type of scene is described in William T. Vollmann's book Poor People. Which in it Vollmann travels the world in search of poverty, aiming to ask…

“Enrique cannot see blood, but he senses it everywhere.” In the book Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario Enrique’s mom leaves him in Honduras. His mom left for the United States in order to send money to support her family. Enrique travels through Mexico illegally on top of trains in order to reunite with his mother Lourdes. Migrants travel on train tops, these trains have nicknames that describe their experiences The Train of Death, The Train that Devours, and The Pilgrims Train. The Train of…

the correct terminology to use—Maya or Mayan—and the meaning of these words with reference to contemporary or precolumbian peoples, to Mayan peoples in different parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and to languages or peoples. Maya populations in Chiapas. The area officially assigned to the Lacandon Community is the Montes Azules Biosphere…

An important Maya center during 250-900 C.E., was Yaxchilán. It was located on the south bank of the Usumacinta River, in Chiapas, Mexico, it was famous for the carved stone. Above the three doorways of Structure 23, were Limestone Lintels 24,25 and 26, they showed rituals performed by Shield Jaguar II and his wife. Above the doorway of Structure 21 was Lintels 15,16, and 17, which was structured by Jaguar IV, he built and remodeled most of structures in Yaxchilan’s. Lintel 16 was created after…

Palenque is an archaeological place that is located on the western edge of the Maya empire state of Chiapas, Mexico near the river Usumacinta its original name is ´´Lakamha´´ what does it mean ´´the place of large waters´´. This magnificent place was created in May 30, 1567. Palenque has one of the finest architecture and sculptures the Maya ever produce and a lot of history of Maya ancestors. That is why I would like to preserve for generations and I will create three regulations that…

Mexican evangelical Christians are being persecuted by followers of a hybrid faith who subject them to beatings and forced conversion, charity group International Christian Concern (ICC) said. ICC said evangelical Christians in some states in southern Mexico have been beaten and driven away from their villages last year. Synchretists, those who practice a combination of faiths, traditions, and mythologies, are allegedly the ones responsible for the incidents, Fox News details. “They will try to…

Chasteen wrote that n 1493 Pope Alexander VI, while granting Spain the right to colonize the New World, mandated that the indigenous people be converted to Catholicism and didn’t want anyone to be converted into slaves. However, he added a catch that anyone who didn’t want to be converted into Catholicism they would be converted into slaves. More positively, in 1500, Queen Isabella of Spain then said that all Indian would be converted into slave because they were to different from white people…

They wanted change. They demanded that there be free and democratic elections. The Zapatistas were a group who supported improving rights and living conditions for Mexico’s indigenous people. Even though their region, Chiapas, provided a lot of resources globally very little was provided to the indigenous people. Zapatistas believe that their healthcare, housing, education, and jobs needed improvement. The agenda of the Zapatista Revolution was to fight into they were…