León Enrique Ávila Romero (Doctor of Agricultural Sciences) is a full-time professor-researcher in Sustainable Development at the Intercultural University of Chiapas (UNICH). He is the leader of the consolidated academic body "Heritage, territory, and development in the southern border of Mexico". He was a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley (USA), the Catholic University of Bolivia, the University of the Republic of Uruguay, the University of Girona (Spain), and the University of Bielefeld (Germany). He is a member of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), Guadalajara / Bielefeld.