Maya Villagers Resist Mega Hog Farms in Yucatán

Communities fight back as industrial farms overwhelm them with stench, contamination and corruption

“The smell was what woke us up. The green flies, the mosquitoes. The headaches. The pestilence, which at night no longer lets us sleep. Then something appeared in the fruit, as if it were smoke. The bushes looked sad and would soon dry up. When we realized it, the Kekén farm had already been running for a year.

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