Friday, August 1, 2008

Hacienda de Henequen


For a brief moment in history, around 1880, Yucatan was one of the richest regions of the planet thanks to a peculiar kind of cactus that thanks to its rich fiber content, was used to make everything from ropes, to bags, to shoes...

Those glory days are long gone (synthetic fiber anyone?) but a couple of very small, scaled down, henequen operations (I won't be so bold as to name them "Haciendas") still survive. Ake, as I was writing yesterday, it's one of them.

This guy turned to be a complete nutter and manage to scare Kika. For me, he was just another zombie on this very eerie place...

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