For this reason, Pech founded the Muuch Kambal coalition and the Colectivo Apícola de los Chenes,[6] two groups that sued the government to stop the cultivation of this type of transgenic crop. In 2015, the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that indigenous communities must be consulted before the cultivation of any transgenic crops occurs. In 2017, Monsanto's permission to grow genetically modified seeds was revoked in Campeche, Yucatán, and five other states in Mexico.[1]