The citizens work hard to keep out the US drive to "civilize" their village and they are moderately successful, as those from here who adopt the "christian" ways of the evangelists are banished to small lean-tos outside the city of San

With the ongoing money pouring into this area to "convert" these people to the "proper way", this culture, the final Maya descendants, will be dead in the near future.

If we don't "take them down" with cell-phones, dish-antennas, and US "studio production churches" along with all of our "freedom fry" byproducts, while instilling and warping the world to our own culture - if it doesn't happe

Such a surreal and humbling experience to peek into what life must have been like here centuries and centuries ago, while marveling the fact that it seems to continue mostly unaltered, well outside of the coke cans, bluejeans and cowboy hats of course.

A procession is about to unfold, initiated in the church. Cameras are often crushed, memory cards confiscated and even sometimes a night in jail can be had if caught photographing a procession or a tribal elder, so for the rest of the show, it's going to

Somehow I am getting to take about twice the photos I did on my last visit by hiding behind my Chamula native tour guide. I normally am sort of anti-guide but I must say it has paid off this visit!

The Mormans & Witnesses are aching to take down this culture.