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Maïs amer
Lucas Mouzas
1997 - 52 min - France
Lucas Mouzas
1997 - 52 min - France
Two hundred kilometres from Acapulco, Montaña, in Guerrero, is one of the main Indian enclaves in Mexico. 300,000 Indians, Mixtecs, Tlapanecs, Nahuatls live there in great poverty, totally on the fringe of a neo-liberal Mexico that pretends to ignore them.
But the unproductive land no longer suffices to ensure subsistence for the families and many of them, in winter, emigrate for several months to the big plantations of Sinaloa, in the North, where, for 27 pesos per day, men, women and children sell their labour.
"Maïs amer" follows a family from their village in Montaña as far as El Sacrificio, the plantations of tomatoes and cucumbers of the Ritz family. A chronicle of modern slavery.