Pedro Uc Be: A Maya poet forged by community and resistance
By Tracy L. Barnett For Mexico News Daily When Maya poet and activist Pedro Uc Be begins to speak about why he writes, he starts not with romance or beauty but with destruction. Across the Yucatán Peninsula, forests have vanished overnight, cenotes have been polluted and communal lands have been carved up by waves of megaprojects. […]
Countdown in Sinaloa: 15 years left to save critical coastal habitat
Fishermen of southern Sinaloa and the migratory birds of North America have something in common: they suffer the impacts of environmental degradation of the Huizache Caimanero lagoon system, one of the most productive along the Mexican Pacific coast. The pangas (open fishing boats) that used to return loaded with shrimp have been left empty, and […]
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