Mexico - Chiapas: Lament of the People Trailer
This trailer presents the first 10 minutes of the CRTN - documentary "Chiapas: Lament of the People" . Production Date: 2009 Duration: 28' Copyright : CRTN Language: English, Spanish Executive Producer: Mark Riedemann Director: David Jones "In Latin America, human promotion is practically in Bishops' hands. Some days ago we met a politician who told us that if Church did not help the Government, they would not be able to manage. Bishops, parish priests and nuns know where health problems exist, where education does not exist, where roads are non-existent or where they need to be repaired". [Javier Legorreta, Aid to the Church in Need] The Tzotzil and Zoque people, descending from Mayans and Olmecans, are the main ethnic groups living in the state of Chiapas, situated in southern Mexico bordering Guatemala. This racial diversity permeates the whole of Mexico - a country inhabited by 63 different indigenous ethnic groups, mainly from Mayan and Aztec descent. The reality of Chiapas: An average family has an income of only 150 Euros a month. Poverty is revealed through the lack of infrastructure, poor educational opportunities, conflicts regarding land ownership and alcoholism, which consumes families and villages. The resulting image is of an exuberant nature, but also of a nature overflowing with human misery. Far from the media furor provoked by revolutionary groups in the recent his-tory of Chiapas, the Catholic Church quietly works to defend the rights, values and ...
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