huevos!
this is celestino, the president of the community group. this experience wasnt all rainbows and butterflies though- we really saw the reality of things when we would arrive to a freshly-dug turtle nest, where someone had already come by and STOLEN the eggs. apparently they sell for 5pesos each. we even followed the footprints of a mother turtle, and were signaled by a flashlight up ahead to go away. there is an uncanny respect between the community group and the egg robbers because oftentimes the egg robbers come armed, so there is not much we can do. oddly enough, they dont try to steal eggs that have been reburied in the fenced (unlocked) area, perhaps they recognize that those eggs could grow to be future turtles for them to steal from...
The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more 
