Monthly Archives: November 2016
Tepoztlan: The mystic mountain village
After a childhood spent in a grey London satellite town, I am wide open to the enticements of more exotic climes. Mexico, with its stunning diversity of landscapes, beliefs and traditions, was always going to be somewhere that fired my imagination. Sign me up … Continue reading
‘I tracked down my mother in the Amazon rainforest’
My parents had a very unconventional marriage: my father is an American anthropologist and my mother is a member of the Yanomami tribe living in a remote corner of the Amazon. They were betrothed according to the Yanomami system in … Continue reading
‘I rode “The Beast” as research for my film’
Diego Quemada-Díez as told to Stephen Woodman Back in 2002, I was living by the railroad tracks in Mazatlán on the Pacific coast of Mexico. I started talking to migrants who were passing through town and I was deeply moved … Continue reading
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Tagged Diego Quemada-Díez, La Jaula de Oro, Mexico, migrants, migration, The Beast, The Golden Dream
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The Mexican Labyrinth 