This is just more Marxist political theater. Anyone seriously interested the topic, aside from making easy wisecracks about Mayan sacrifices, should do a Google search on Rigoberta Menchu and other Guatemalan/Mayan political writers. The disciples of Marx and Engels have been very busy in that part of the world.
That's exactly the way I translated the AP doublespeak,
"... Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday"
Cordially,