Mayan peoples of Yucatán unite to stop mining

Throughout the state of Yucatán, dozens of material banks, which are sites where limestone, sascab and other aggregates are removed, operate to supply the growing construction industry. Behind this activity, which feeds roads, subdivisions and megaprojects, there is a problem that is advancing and that is environmental degradation, the irreversible transformation of the territory and, increasingly, community resistance .