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Global Indigenous Peoples News Bulletin #5 (June 2025)
News from Brazil, Malaysia, India, Guatemala, Aotearoa, and more.
Privatizing Sacred Spaces: How a New Guatemalan Law Threatens the Mayan Nation
In early May, the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala introduced the first reading of Initiative 5923 or, the “Law for the Rescue of Pre-Hispanic Heritage” (Ley para el Rescate del Patrimonio Prehispánico). Despite the bill’s ambiguously progressive-sounding title, the reading was met with disappointment, outrage, and alarm from the many Indigenous Mayan peoples of Guatemala and their allies from around the world.