Jacob Lyng currently works for Cancún News and Maya News and whose fourthcoming book investigates the militarization of the Maya Zone during the Mexican Drug War and construction of the Maya Train.
Jacob is Aussie and doesn’t particularly enjoy writing about himself in the third person, nevertheless he has worked as an editor for the human rights publication IC Magazine. His ouvre of environmental journalism includes a series of articles syndicated by Amazon Watch on a
tuberculosis outbreak in U’wa territory on the Colombia-Venezuela border as they battle petroleum companies. He is also on the board of the Esperanza Project, a bi-lingual English and Spanish magazine that covers environmental journalism in the Americas. There he published his analysis on the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the U.S.-Mexico border during the migration crisis.