And while drivers are complaining about this latest increase, the villagers of Indian Creek are doing more than just that. They have taken matters into their own hands after they found boulders blocking the entrance to two roads that the villagers regularly use to access a large plot of land near their garbage site. This land was recently the cause of concern when Lisel Alamilla - acting on behalf of a conservation group - placed a newspaper ad explaining that she Is the land agent for the 12,000 acres and notified the families of the village that they would need to stop using it.
Now, this shocked many as Alamilla had recently stepped down as the chairperson of the Toledo Maya Land Rights Commission.
And the villagers weren't having it this Sunday when they forcibly removed the boulders that Alamilla ordered to be put there. They also put up signs that read "Lisel leave our land alone." The police were called in to defuse the situation, preventing it from getting too volatile.
The problem is the land is a private estate, going back to the 60's, established long before the concept of communal land rights. It is now reportedly owned by Bodden Creek Ecological Preserve.
The Maya Leaders Alliance has since rejected the claim that the plot of land is not communal land.
