These packages require Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0. Mexico Overview Mexico is a rapidly industrializing country with a growing division between its relatively affluent north and desperately poor south and an ever-tightening trade and cultural bond with the United States.
Villagers have no electricity, no clean drinking water.
The nearest health clinic that can treat more than a sniffle lies two hours away by foot. A primary school serves the small community, but studying beyond sixth grade requires the same hike over the mountain as visiting a doctor. Coffee prices on which Garcia and other Totonaco Indians in Cacatzala depend have been sliding for years. A virus that periodically sweeps through the region has killed all the village chickens again, robbing people of their main source of animal protein. Hunger has a home here.