Polvo de estrellas

In the Ecuadorian region of Valle del Chota there is a town where boys and girls become stars. It remains in a place that was once known as the “Valley of Blood and Death” because the indigenous people, forced to work in the sun on sugar and cane farms,...

The Daily Life of Poppy Growers

 The poppy is cultivated in the mountains of the State of Guerrero, which will later become heroin. But daily life there has nothing to do with the narco universe: it is the same as that of any rural Mexican community. There are no pickups or armed people on the...

The Secret Life of Cannabis

 “Our mechanical genius dates back to yesterday, while floral mechanics has been around for thousands of years,” says Belgian poet and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck, who lived in the first half of the 20th century, in his book The Intelligence of...