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Reviews
"Patrícia Díaz-Romo has made an artful and disturbing video entitled Huichols and Pesticides."
"Patrícia Díaz-Romo,s documentary shows the implacable accumulated effects of Spanish Colonialism and North American Neoliberalism on the native populations of Latin America. They are doubly exploited, reduced to silence, and forgotten by the rest of the world; and destined for pure and simple disappearance."
"There is a documentary directed by Ms. Díaz-Romo that tackles the issue of the native peoples who work in tobacco fields in Nayarit.
It has been translated into 12 languages and is now being shown in different parts of the world.
Authorities would be well advised to distribute this film through main stream media so that the public knows the harm inflicted upon rural families, who in the official discourse, are supposed to be protected and freed from poverty."
"The researcher Patrícia Díaz-Romo has shown in her documentary Huichols and Pesticides how those who travel to the fields, searching for employment in tobacco growth, are exposed to terrible illnesses and inhumane treatment."
"Not long ago, during the meeting of the Union of Indigenous Communities, in San Andres, the documentary was shown and people were very interested because prior to that, damages caused by the chemical elements used on the Nayarit coast and in the Sierra Madre Occidental were unknown to us.
"Huichols & Pesticides, documents, through witnesses, reports and persuasive images, the indiscriminate use of pesticides in the tobacco fields, and the poisonings, and even deaths, resulting from the use of agrochemicals."
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