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  • XALPITZAHUAC, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 16, 2010: Scratched poppy pods to extract the opium crude in Guerrero, Mexico. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 4, 2015: Angelica Guerrero, 15, (left) plays with her brother in the community of El Calvario, near to Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero. Almost all its population work in the sowing of opium poppy as unique way to survive economically. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • XALPITZAHUAC, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 16, 2010: A woman scratches the poppy pod to extract the opium crude in Guerrero, Mexico. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: A man in an opium poppy field hidden in a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • XALPITZAHUAC, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 16, 2010: A woman with her boy on her back scratches the poppy pods to extract the opium crude in Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • XALPITZAHUAC, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 16, 2010: A girl stays at home. Families of a community Xalpitzahuac are forced to sow poppy plants in Guerrero due to the poverty, marginalization and lack of employs.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Opium poppy flowers in a field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Opium poppy flowers in a field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: A man touches an opium poppy flower in a field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 4, 2015: Jose Luis Garcia, 28, and his family inside of his house in the community of El Calvario. This village is located nearby to Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, and almost all its population work in the sowing of opium poppy as unique way to survive economically.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: A man in an opium poppy field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Opium poppy flowers in a field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 4, 2015: A boy in the community of El Calvario, near to Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero. Almost all its population work in the sowing of opium poppy as unique way to survive economically. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: A man shows how the opium poppy pod is scratched to extract the crude opium, in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: View of the mountains surrounding to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero. The opium poppy is sowing in sheer places for not to be located, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: View of the mountains surrounding to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero. The opium poppy is sowing in sheer places for not to be located, Mexico. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Three young men in the community of El Calvario, near to Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero. Almost all its population work in the sowing of opium poppy as unique way to survive economically. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Opium poppy flower in a field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Jose Luis Garcia, 28, is a farmer and lives with his wife and children in the community of El Calvario. This village is located nearby to Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, and almost all its population work in the sowing of opium poppy as unique way to survive economically. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • Taxco una vez mas albergó uno de los eventos de ciclismo mas importantes de México. © Rodrigo Cruz / zonamtb.com
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: A man walks by intricate paths during 6 hours round trip to get into the mountains and works in the poppy opium fields located in the gullies, that allow that these are not visible from air, Mexico. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • ACAPULCO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: View of the beach Caleta and Caletilla in Acapulco, Mexico. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • ACAPULCO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: View of Acapulco bay. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • Sam Pilgrim during Down Taxco 2018, in Mexico.
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  • Ricardo Peredo, Adolf Silva and Bredan Fairclough during Down Taxco 2018, in Mexico.
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: View of the community of El Calvario, inhabited by ten families, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Landscape of the sunrise during the way to the community of El Calvario, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • Ricardo Peredo during Down Taxco 2018, in Mexico.
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  • Cada año la ciudad de Taxco recibe algunos de los mejores ciclistas del mundo para recorrer los estrechos callejones que caracterizan a esta ciudad. © Rodrigo Cruz / zonamtb.com
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 4, 2015: View of a landscape nearby to the community of El Calvario, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 4, 2015: A horse outside of the house of Jose Luis Garcia relatives in the community of El Calvario, México.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • En algunos pueblos de Guerrero se realizan ceremonias de petición de lluvias donde las danzas y la música tiene un lugar importante.
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  • Rappelling 328 feet into the river Granados in Taxco, Guerrero. This river forms the waterfall named Thousand Waterfalls, Guerrero, Mexico.
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  • Rappelling 328 feet into the river Granados in Taxco, Guerrero. This river forms the waterfall named Thousand Waterfalls, Guerrero, Mexico.
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  • La Esperanza, an indigenous people that lives from agriculture and commerce, is located in the state of Guerrero, in southern Mexico.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • Un grupo de jóvenes con su reata amarrada al cuerpo, sus toallas en la cabeza y sus máscaras se preparan para participar en la pelea de tigres contra adversarios de un pueblo vecino.
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  • Un grupo de tigres se dirige al lugar donde se enfrentarán en peleas durante el ritual de petición de lluvias.
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  • Un hombre se coloca una máscara de tigre y se dirigirse al lugar donde se enfrentará a otros tigres durante el ritual de petición de lluvias.
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  • ACAPULCO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: A boy jumps to the sea in Acapulco, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • Sometimes women ask for time out to rest and clean the blood from their nose. His blood is an offering to his deities, which will be accepted and rewarded with a good harvest.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • The women throw the blows with force to the face, the one who receives them frequently closes her eyes in pain and even drenched in blood do not give up, they continue to fight.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • People congregate every year in the middle of a field of sowing to carry out a ritual where men and women fight to ask for rain and for the corn plant to germinate.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • The fight is over, he now wipes the blood from his face, he has already spilled blood on the sowing field.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • Los grupos tigres se reunen alejados unos de otros para no ser reconocidos, mientras tanto colocan sus cristos, coronas de flores y las diferentes mascaras que serán usadas en las peleas sobre rocas a la vista de la gente que llega para formar parte del ritual.
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  • A child with tears in his eyes, perhaps from feeling defeated in his fight.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • A bloodstained paper on the battlefield, while more fights take place more rain should fall over the corn plants.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • A Nahua indigenous raises his fist in victory at the end of their fight during the ritual asking for rain.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • Two women fight in the center of a circle made up of the same women who attend the ritual fight. Nobody intervenes in the fights, the only way to finish is to surrender.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • Two women look for their rival among those attending the ritual fight.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
    Ask-for-Rain-Ritual_Rodrigo-Cruz_08.jpg
  • Roberto Castillo de Costa Rica deleita con un asombroso truco a cientos de espectadores del Downhill Taxco 2013. © Rodrigo Cruz / Altius
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  • Inhabitants of indigenous communities gather in the highest mountains and in springs to celebrate rain request rituals.
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  • Dos mujeres visitan la tumba de un familiar y ofrecen una corona de flores, al fondo se pueden ver las montañas a las que mas tarde subirán en procesión para realizar un ritual que tiene que ver con el aseguramiento mágico de las lluvias y la fertilidad de las tierras.
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  • It is time for the exchange of blows, the rules are simple, just blows with a closed fist to the face until one of the two opponents decides not to continue, at the end, they cordially shake hands and take a break, possibly someone else ask to fight one of them and if not, they will wait until next year.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • Before fighting it is important to bandage the hands to avoid injuring the wrist or knuckles.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • Most women have fought at some time in their life and this starts as children.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • An indigenous Nahua woman prays in a sacred place, here the townspeople gather to celebrate and share food before the ritual fights take place.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • Around the fights, other girls take photos and video with their cell phones.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
    Ask-for-Rain-Ritual_Rodrigo-Cruz_06.jpg
  • A woman takes a handful of dirt from the ground to wipe the sweat from her hands to clench her fists more firmly and start the fight.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • A girl challenges her opponent by taking her by the blouse and closing her fist ready to attack, the other girl closes her eyes but does not give up, she manages to let go and fights with courage.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • She on guard, with pain and blood in her mouth, looks directly at her opponent with no plans to give up.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • Los "tlacololeros" que producen los truenos con sus látigos, tienen la misión de preparar y cuidar la tierra de los roedores y de mantener a una distancia prudente a los que deciden acercarse demasiado durante una pelea de tigres.
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  • Salomon Guerrero biking by a single track during a trip in the Sierra Norte de Puebla.
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  • Salomon Guerrero realiza un truco conocido como "wall ride" sobre el corte de un cerro durante un recorrido de el pueblo de Honey a Pahuatlan, Puebla.
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  • Salomon Guerrero y Antonio Acosta cruzn un riachuelo en el parque Piedras Encimadas.
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