Indigenous Mexicans turn inward to survive COVID-19, barricading villages and growing their own food
- Written by Jeffrey H. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
Zapotec farmers return from their 'milpa,' the garden plots that provide much of the communities' food, in Oaxaca, Mexico. Jeffrey H. Cohen, CC BY-SA
While the coronavirus hammers Mexico, some Indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca are finding creative ways to cope.
Oaxaca, one of Mexico’s poorest and most ethnically...