The Mexican government, (and behind them, North American conservation NGOs, most likely) is stating to the world: we had to Kill the Jungle In Order To Save It.

This is parallel to these same actors trying to steal indigenous pharma knowledge so they can patent it and make billions off of it.

Once again Progress (that jealous bitch-goddess and patron saint of Neoliberalism) ratchets up the pressure on indigenous "trespassers" of the Lacandon.  

Read about it at:

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2004/dic04/041203/014n1

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