The Mennonite Colony that Made a Deal with a Diamond Company

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Not long ago, the field where Charlotte Itala collects corn with her friends was a hunting ground where the people of her small African village captured antelopes, wild boars and buffaloes from the forest. Now that land has been plowed by her new employers, a group of Mennonites from Old Colony. Mennonites, followers of a Christian sect founded in the 16th century, total nearly 60 people, most of whom left Mexico almost a year ago to settle in n…

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Mérida, Yucatán.- “The Mennonites in Yucatán are truly a very serious environmental problem,” and “they have come forward with weapons” in attempts to stop their environmentally damaging activities, says Alicia Isabel Adriana Bárcena Ibarra, head of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat). On the morning of Tuesday, June 17, the official […]