Bellacili
This is Bellacili. That machine on the left is an egg incubator for 1000 eggs. Edupaz gave her a $80.000 peso loan ($8,000 dollars) to buy that incubator for her family’s chicken business. The business has been going very well, I saw a bunch of new chicks running around. But her husband was robbed yesterday. They robbed $23.000 pesos ($2,300 dollars) from him in the middle of the day, in the town plaza. Then they threw a bag in his face, saying “we don’t want your ****ing money!” just to mess with his head more (they had carefully cut pieces of newspaper into the size of bills and wrapped that in a handkerchief and put it in a bag). He was going to use that money to make some loan payments to Edupaz, and to buy materials for the chicken coop. Now they have to start from zero again.
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 
