Acteal
this is a community in the mountains of Chiapas called Acteal. this foto was taken during a ceremony on the 22nd of March. The ceremony occurs every 22nd of the month to remember a masacre that occurred in the village. that wooden shack in the left of the photo is the church where the masacre occurred on Dec 22, 1997, by paramilitaries, killing 45 people, the majority women and children, during mass. The community empathizes with the Zapatistas, but they choose to recognize themselves as a different group, dedicated to nonviolence.
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