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February 9, 2012

Neighbors want Mexican highway project rerouted to save ruins of an ancient town

  • Towering pyramids and temples in Mexico are well known, but the vast urban centers that supported those ceremonial sites have largely disappeared.
    • By MARK STEVENSON
    Associated Press

    MEXICO CITY — When neighbors in the hills east of Mexico City saw backhoes ripping up pre-Hispanic relics for a highway, they did something unexpected in a country where building projects often bulldoze through ruins: They launched protests to stop the digging and demanded an accounting of what is there.

    Dozens of residents set up a protest camp and filed complaints with state and federal officials, demanding the highway be rerouted, hoping that studies of the site can help solve an age-old riddle about their town.


     
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