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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
By Grinne N. Aodha

Mayan people’s battle with big companies for land ‘like fighting a monster’

The Mayan people’s struggle to keep their ancestral land has been described as “the fourth conquest” and like “fighting a monster”.

The indigenous community has been through continuous displacement, starting with the Spanish conquests in the 16th century.

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