Bacalar

The Magical Village of the seven-color lagoon , tourism development, environmental protection, and the fight to preserve the Lagoon of Seven Colors before Instagram ruins it.

Aerial view of a cenote in the Yucatan jungle with construction cranes from hotel developments visible at the edges of the forest.

Riviera Maya

Shell Companies and Sacred Water: How Land Deals Work in the Riviera Maya

The Riviera Maya is in the middle of one of the most consequential land grabs. Foreign capital, corporate shells, and a byzantine legal architecture originally designed to protect indigenous land rights are being weaponized to transfer communal territory into private and often anonymous hands.