The historical dynamics of the construction of the State of Guatemala has allowed the original peoples to conserve cultural mechanisms that have allowed them to adapt to the different political, social and economic conditions that have been imposed on them and in which the colonial condition has placed them and subsequently the Republic of Guatemala. This condition does not escape the phenomenon of the construction of global capitalism, in which case the land, from the perspective of the dominators - groups of real global and local power - has considered it as an exploitable resource as well as natural and cultural assets. people.