Maya Communal Land Rights And The Comparison To "Balkanization" “Balkanization” - the word may sound foreign - and indeed it is; it comes from the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. That area was divvied up into different territories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And, since then, the term has passed into common usage. It means to divide a region or body into smaller mutually hostile states or groups. And that’s what successive PUP governments have accused the Maya of Southern