 Several prominent individuals representing Maya of Guatemala decried the suggestion that the world would end with the 13th bʼakʼtun.Ricardo Cajas, president of the "Colectivo de Organizaciones Indígenas de Guatemala", said the date did not represent an end of humanity but that the new cycle "supposes changes in human consciousness".Martín Sacalxot, of the office of Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman ("Procurador de los Derechos Humanos"), said that the end of the calendar has nothing to do with the end of the world or the year 2012.