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Huicholes del Tabaco (The People of Tobacco)

Directed By
Cesar Rodriguez
Produced By
Past Presentation
Cinema Verde
2018
Huicholes del Tabaco (The People of Tobacco)
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Huicholes del Tabaco (The People of Tobacco)
10
Minutes
Minute
Indigenous
,
Health
,
Pollution
Mexico
2016

Year after year, family members of an indigenous ethnic group of Huicholes, from the Sierra Madre of Nayarit and Jalisco, leave their communities with their entire families to work as tobacco laborers. Including pregnant women and children, they live at the tobacco fields and are exposed continuously to chemicals that cause many chronic and serious illnesses.

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