...[The] Court of Appeal has recently re-affirmed the Maya people’s rights to collective land ownership throughout southern Belize. This good news was tempered, however, with the judge’s decision to lift an injunction that had ordered the cease of oil exploitation in Mayan lands, therefore giving the green light to US Capital Energy to continue ramping up their project for oil drilling within the Maya lands and the Sartstoon-Temash National Park…[The] Sarstoon-Temash Institute for Indigenous Management...[is] filing a lawsuit against the government of Belize and US Capital Energy for the years in which they have proceeded in exploration and exploitation despite the injunction and despite the long list of international documents and bodies that have declared the Maya the rightful owners of the land…