interesting document about different agents that will become harder to decipher in this story with the passing of time.
There are different graphic works about Cherán( 2012), but Álvarez Montero’ s camera has the singularity of registering different factions of the armed conflict that takes place in this indigenous town, located in the state of Michoacán. Said town has been continuously attacked by illegal saw millers, supposedly protected by the most important criminal group in the country,“ Los Zetas”, who pillage the natural resources of the community upon the lazy look of the State forces. The dwellers of Cherán have raised in arms to defend themselves, winning the prize of many deaths, evidencing dynamics that take place today in other parts of the country, labyrinths generated by a land with no law.
Carlos Álvarez Montero, Cherán
The images of Álvarez Montero show us a body dressed with hybrid clothes, a traditional, urban and military suit in the middle of a divided territory. This reading of the body’ s migrations, its marks and signs 11, could constitute a very important chapter in the country’ s recent history. It requires, however, a more consistent
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