Mexico: the desire that corrupts

The Mexican artist and engraver Orlando Velázquez seeks to portray the moment in which the bond that connected man with his habitat was broken. “The earth is the beginning and the end of all things,” he says wistfully. He regrets that, as a result of conflicts such as...

Afro-Mexicans: we are not folklore

Hugo Arellanes was bothered by something every time anthropologists, photographers and filmmakers visited his native Costa Chica. For years he could not put in words what it was. Until he managed to see it from a distance, at the university. There he concludes:...

Notes to make a migrant herbalist

“I remember seeing my mother and my grandmother; they used arnica, chamomile, rose, avocado leaves, thyme, oregano and other species ”; “Oregano from my house, from my land, where I was born”; “Rue for menstrual cramps in tea.” The sentences...