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PERSPECTIVES
From Mexico

By Charles E. Moritzky.
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Zapotitlan
(Land of the Vultures)

Vidal is my brother-in-law. He and Areceli, his wife, both teach at a rural school where Vidal also is the director. He is a nice guy. He smiles a lot, is generous, and it seems when anyone needs help, they go to Vidal.

Vidal loves anything with a motor in it and he loves to make deals. He made a deal with Juan, a schoolteacher from another school, to buy his medium size commercial van.

While this was going on, Juan saw my 1981 Honda Prelude and fell in love with it and wanted to buy it. I told him it had a gear missing but that didn't make any difference. He couldn't drive anyway. It was a pretty car, with a new paint job, a sunroof that worked electronically, etc.

The deal was: Vidal would pay twenty thousand pesos for the van. Juan would pay me ten thousand pesos for the Honda. Then Juan was to take ten thousand and my Prelude and Vidal would pay me back later.

Early one Saturday morning, Vidal and I left Tlaxco in his VW bug that he had been nursing along for years. We drove north to Zacatlan and then headed east, toward Zapotitlan and then Timixlan, the village where Juan's family lived. After driving a couple of hours through beautiful mountainous country we turned off on a gravel road. We were at the entrance of Zapotitlan and the road to Timixlan.

We stopped to have a coffee at a café. On a steep hillside, on the other side of the intersection, we watched two men planting corn. The ground had been cleared to some degree. One man punched a hole in the ground with a pointed stick. The other took grain from a cloth bag hung from his shoulder and dropped grain in the hole, just as their ancestors had done thousands of years ago.

The owner of the restaurant offered to take us on a guided tour of a cavern on his land. Apparently it was impressive but not lighted for tourist trade.

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