People walk the road, hope for rides, but their main thoroughfare is under the cover of the forest that covers the peaks on each side of the road. There are no roads to countless encampments of displaced people in these hills and mountains. Someone asked about a road building program to improve the health care access to these new villages. The irony of warfare and fear was an obvious answer. We ask for information and are invited to sit on the ground by the small stream under a grand fig tree.
Children play in the water and people carry water up the hill.
The health promoters give us excellent long speeches. They are very serious about their mission to detail for us their extensive knowledge of health care and plans for supplies they don't have. This center of Zapatista life is building a new hospital and clinic. The people do not trust the government hospital, fearing the excessive interrogation and record keeping there. The new Zapatista hospital is being built well back from the road.