[caption id="attachment_1464" align="aligncenter" width="600"] For those who are blind to children working in the amber business and in Mexico[/caption] It's almost 8pm on our last day of filming in Chiapas. We had a second great interview with an amber shop owner and collector this morning and...
[caption id="attachment_1429" align="aligncenter" width="600"] San Cristobal from the Guadalupe Virgin's church[/caption] Well, I thought I was going to escape Moctezuma's vengeance this time, we're almost at the end of the trip, but it sneaks up on me in the middle of the night, and I spend...
Before we head back to San Cristobal we organise a visit to meet one more possible contributor, a Simojovel native who's an artisan and merchant and has shops both in Simojovel and San Cristobal. Alicia and I go to his house in the morning and...
We're woken up by a call to Alicia's cell at 5:30 am, excited that we're going to be told to come along this morning. False alarm, it's someone else asking her a favour. Later on, she tries to call Dionisio and then his wife Esperanza...
We have been worrying about the weather, looking at different meteorological sources before coming over, since, if it rains, it will be hard or impossible to film in the mines again. As it turns out, even though we're in the dry season, there should be...
[caption id="attachment_1415" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Paul getting some welding done in Simojovel[/caption] Today we met one of the infamous "Chinese" amber buyers. We found out there was one renting a room in Simojovel for a few months and went investigating. Ah, the joys of a small town...