The Maya say that the Government lack the political will to make Maya customary land rights a real thing. Meanwhile, the Government continues to insist that for an undertaking as important as this, it takes as long as it takes to get it right, because they do not want to have to address potentially unintended consequences due to a rush to please the Maya.

Well today, the NGO organization known as the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management has added their voice to the chorus of disapproval of the Government's pace to implement Maya customary land rights.

A release from SATIIM publicly puts several questions to the Government. SATIIM reminded that last year on August 9, the International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples, they launched their theoretical version of a Maya Lands Registry of customary land usage and delineation. Crique Sarco Village was the first Maya community to present its map of what the villagers believe their village lands occupy. They say that it was sent to the Attorney General, and they got no response. The suspect that the Attorney General never bothered to the look at the map.

SATIIM's Executive Director, Froyla Tz'alam, is quoted in the release as saying, "After a year of silence, now he is talking -- about oil 'exploration' on community lands! We'd like to see what maps he's using; to hear how he is implementing the Consent Order."

SATIIM's release reminds that the CCJ order became final in 2015 that the Government is to create and effective mechanism to identify and protect Mayan lands. The organization insists that they are the only ones who actually made any effort to identify the lands that the Government is supposed to be protecting.

SATIIM does appear to agree with the Government that mapping Maya lands will be an expensive, complex process. They insist that the model that they and the Maya communities put together last year is the most effective attempt so far.