Institute History
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In the face of grave political and environmental danger, the Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico are surviving the worst of human rights violations. The drug cartels of central Mexico have illegally taken over the Tarahumara aboriginal land, deforested without permission, planted massive quantities of marijuana and opium, and enslaved the people to cultivate the drug fields. Many Indians have been murdered, and survivors live in absolute terror. Filmmakers Robert Brewster and Felix Gehm have courageously documented this shocking and isolated conflict in Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara.
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