War of the Gods in Mexico

The AP story began, “The Gods must be angry — or just laughing.”

Mexican authorities have ordered removal of a 10-foot statue of Poseidon, Greek God of the Sea, installed near a Yucatan beach.

Prompted by a complaint from the “Indigenous Strategic Litigation group,” its spokesman Carlos Morales saying the Poseidon effigy is “foreign to the Maya culture.” And there’s “a human right for . . . Maya culture to be preserved.” The legal complaint said the statue offended the beliefs of local Maya indigenous groups, ...