Blocking Sales of Artifacts from Belize, Guatemala and Mali

Mayan artefacts from the villiage of Chajul, Guatemala, property of a Florida collector.

A telling symptom of the declining influence of the State Department's Cultural Heritage Center (CHC) and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) seems to be the Short comment period for proposed MOUs with Belize, Guatemala and Mali. Readers might like to express their views on this by turning to the Regulations.gov website and entering a public comment for the Cultural Property Advisory Committee's review of proposed renewals of these existing MOUs.
Both Guatemala and Belize produce artifacts for the collector of the Mayan culture which emerged in the lowland area of the Yucatán Peninsula and the highlands to the south, in what is now southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, western Honduras, and Belize.