Video "Huichols and Pesticides"

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Huichols & Pesticides was first presented in Guadlajara Mexico in 1994 by it's director Patrícia Díaz-Romo. Since then the film has been widely distributed among agricultural workers, indigenous communities, universities, schools and NGOs. It has been broadcast on television in more than 30 countries and won numerous awards.

More importantly the H & P documentary has been be translated from Spanish into English and the folowwing 12 indigenous Mexican languages:

Wixárika (Huichol),
Nayari (Cora),
O'dam ñi'ok (Tepehuano),
P'urhepecha (Purhépecha),
Nauatl (Náhuatl),
Xtilla bene xhon (Zapoteco de la sierra, variante xhon),
Diidxazá (Zapoteco del istmo),
Tuhum saahan ndavi ñuum skuíia´a (Mixteco Juxtlahuaca),
Xna' anj nu' (Triki de copala),
Maaya ta'an (Maya peninsular),
Bats'il c'op (Tseltal),
Batz'i k'op (Tzotzil).

Huichols & Pesticides was made possible through the generous support of non-governmental organizations and individuals, such as actors Hector Bonilla, Peter Coyote, and Ofelia Medina.

The Huichols and Pesticides script is also available in fourteen different languages. It may be of interest to you as a small farmer, field worker, teacher, member of an indigenous or rural organization, or as a doctor, nurse or public health worker in your community. Or you may be simply interested in learning how a few people profit at a great cost to the health of many others.

The script is available through barter or the cost of reproduction. Click here for more information.