Two of us from KAC along with three other partners made the long and arduous drive and trek into Mexico’s Copper Canyon just before Christmas to assess some of the village needs of Tarahumara we have sought to relate to in the past.  Sorry for not being able to give the “feel good post” of the year, but it was hard to be encouraged.  On top of all the other struggles that the Tarahumara Indian and their culture face, the drug trade has flooded their remote villages.  Taking their land in exchange for $5 a day, has many Tarahumarans abandoning the planting of their own crops to tend to the cultivation of some drug lord’s marijuana.  The dynamics of this development threatens the Tarahumara on many fronts.  We are hopeful of placing personnel in Mexico and continuing to work alongside other partners to give the Tarahumara choices that will enhance life and not invade, threaten, and erode.

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