Tama’s Media Fields and the Pan-American Indigenous Movement

On this particular Monday, 7 October 2013, the Santa Ana agencia, located in a valley two kilometers below the center of Tlahui, is unrecognizable. As a rule, daily life is shaped here by the agricultural activities of the inhabitants in their cornfields and scattered dwellings, and crowds of young children and teenagers on their way to school, including the well-known high school BICAP.¹ Now, however, the picturesque valley is dominated by a vast white tent with the capacity to hold up to 3,000 people and equipped with several large screens to enable them to follow events on the stage. The