Posts Tagged 'indígenas’

The wave of suicides of this native town, forgotten like so many in this Mexico in a hurry to get to the present, had a first voice of alarm early in 2012. Then, The Organized Front of Indigenous Peasants denounced that "indigenous women when they have been unable to feed their children for four or five days become sad; and his sadness is so great that even 10 from December to 2011 fifty men and women, thinking that they don't have to give their children, they threw themselves into the ravine ".

In Guachochi the terrain is high plateau. We went out to see a community of Tarahumara Indians and the pine forests followed one another with the threat of some water path that could divide the cruel from the human. In the community we find a hard life, poor and full of cultural nuances of the raramuri, one of those peoples that understands the world from the other side of the mirror.

Of the numerous indigenous celebrations, perhaps that of the Tarahumara Indians, in Chihuahua, be the most unique. Unlike other celebrations around the Mexican Republic, For the Tarahumara people, Holy Week does not represent the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but the eternal struggle between good and evil, They call it "nolirúache" (hanging around) and marks a kind of new year according to its agricultural calendar

It sometimes happens that someone gets up with the intention of changing the world. Very occasionally that someone perseveres against all odds. And can happen, that challenge the impossible, that person will get.