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The Water Sowers of Oaxaca

Zapotecs of the Ocotlán Valley wage a groundbreaking battle for the defense of the aquifers

San Antonino Castillo Velasco, Oaxaca, Mexico — Twelve years ago in the verdant Ocotlán Valley of Mexico, a group of men and women of Zapotec origin watched as their crops of vegetables and flowers began to wither away. A long drought seemed destined to turn their fertile valley into a desert area. But through a […]

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