The man to the right below is wearing some of the leather, but the one on the left is not. They are working cleared land with one of the primary roads available for driving cattle. A closer view is seen along with the heads of the gang in a display that toured the Northeast after they had been caught and killed. Both hat styles are hot items in the souvenir markets. As so many living in hard regions they are independent and proud.
Poverty is severe.
Many, if not most, live in single room structures made of woven branches covered by mud. They exist on rice, beans and meat. In general they are hard working and honest, even when driven to the cities by severe conditions. They usually live in abject poverty sending pitiful amounts of cash back to families in the Northeast. The music might be a rough equivalent to country-western in the U.S. and has nothing of the sound of samba.