Officials Order Demolition of Chocolate Museum at Mexican Archaeological Site EFE
go to original August 9, 2013

"Choco-Story Chichen" store located next to the hotel Lodge Chichen Itza (Facebook)

MEXICO CITY - Officials have ordered the demolition of the Chocolate Museum, which is being built by the Choco Story Chichen company in the Chichen Itza archaeological zone "without authorization," the Mexican National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said.

The company has been notified that the project "is improper" and must be demolished, the INAH said in a statement.

Officials determined that the Federal Law on Monuments and Archaeological, Artistic and Historic Zones "does not allow the construction of the museum," the INAH said.

The Belgian-owned company cannot operate the museum in a field in the Chichen Itza zone because it holds "archaeological elements that are part of pre-Hispanic structures," the federal agency said.

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