One of the earliest Agros villages is perched high on a hill among the Sierra Madres. We heard gunfire in the night and in the morning looked in the streets for those who had died. Like Cedillo, he, too, found a new life in the communal atmosphere of an Agros village. I know if we work hard, our lives will improve. The work is very hard indeed.
Land is cleared with basic tools, often handmade.
Villagers construct their own cement blocks and then build two-room homes from the blocks. They dig miles of ditch and lay miles of pipe for running water. There is no electricity. But the Indians wouldn't hear of it. Kaltschmitt finally discovered why.