Mexico: “Mayans Didn’t Predict the End of the World” · Global Voices
Gabriela García Calderón

According to the Mayans, what we are about to celebrate is the beginning of b’ak’tun 14. Very similar to us about to celebrate the beginning of 2013, or as happened some years ago, when we celebrated the beginning of 21st century.
Group blog Pedazos de carbono [es] weighs in and gives reasonable explanations about the alleged Mayan predicitions.