A Future with Forestry: Community Forest Enterprises Offer Hope for Rural Mexico

摘要

It is before dawn when the late-1980s pickup truck rumbles to life outside Gabriel Reyes's adobe-walled home, perched on the steep slopes of the Indigenous Zapotee community of San Juan Ozolotepec, high in the mountains of Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca. The truck's cargo, young men in their teens and early 20s, bundled against the morning cold, are headed out on the first leg of a long, costly, and dangerous journey that will land them on the other side of the US border if they are lucky. Watching the pickup climb the rocky, narrow track out of the village, Reyes shakes his head.