Dr Nemesio

I visited the local office of UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonomo de México) today and talked to a researcher named Nemesio Rodriguez. He supplied me with some contact in Zipolite and also offered some hermenutical devices to use in constructing this analysis. He advised that I look at intergenerational understandings of how the town (or towns--he advised me to look at Mazunte and other neighbors as well as Zipolite) has changed from a sector 1 (agricultural) to sector 3 (service-based) economy. Sector 2 is comercial and industrial.
He also said that Indonesia and Vietnam entering into the global coffee market affected coffee production on the coast much more than Huricane Paulina did in 1997. That did not negate, however, coffee growers from soliciting federal money for "losses".
The last thing he told me was to pay attention to three infrastructure projects that will affect the future of these towns imensly. Hotel chains, iron ore mining, and a huge transnational highway will all become more present in this region over the next 10 years or so. I should pay attention to how people think about these projects.