Descendants of the Mayans still live in parts of Central America and southern Mexico, where they are among the poorest people. The BBC's Alastair Leithead travelled to a small Mayan village in the Mexican state of Chiapas to see how government attempts to modernise indigenous people are clashing with a traditional life that goes back thousands of years.

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