Mexico’s government has acknowledged that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors because of a toxic mix of cartel violence and land disputes.
But two tourist guides in the southern state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, say two other sites that the government claims are still open to visitors can only be reached by passing though drug gang checkpoints.
The explosion of drug cartel violence in Chiapas since last year has left the Yaxchilán ruin site completely cut off, the government conceded Friday.
Sounds like a good use for the military, clear the gangs out by force and eminent domain the land that is disputed so you can have the tourism industry pump money into an economy that needs it
The military is in on it, too.
All of mexico is a narco-state, now. It’s what they want.
Haven’t you heard about the strategy from the current goverment party? “Hugs, not bullets”, meaning they are letting them do as they please, there have been videos of narcos making fun of militia because they have the order of letting them be.