Sierra LacandónCartel graffiti now marks an ancient Maya temple.
It shows organized crime, not the state, controls parts of Guatemala’s protected jungle.
Since the mid-2000s, trafficking groups have cut clandestine airstrips into the jungle to receive cocaine from South America near the Mexican border.
Environmental authorities and law enforcement remain absent from this stretch of jungle, rangers told reporters.
How each outlet framed it
- InSight Crime leans critical
- documents cartel territorial graffiti on Mayan ruins in Sierra Lacandón National Park
Sources: InSight Crime