13 pueblos en defensa del agua el aire y la tierra

13 Populations in Defense of Water, Air, and the Earth
by Francesco Taboada Tabone

Mexico, 2008
Digital Betacam
Colour
Length: 63’
Language: Spanish

The story of the “13 populations” began in 2007 with the birth of the Council of Peoples of Morelos in defense of their territory. This was an organized fight against a corrupt political system that expressed the economic interests tied to the paving of the territory, to open-air dumps, and to the privatization of communal property. Today, the 13 populations have become 64, and their advisory council represents around 800,000 people, more than a third of the citizens of the State of Morelos.

Francesco Taboada Tabone
Born in 1973, after his studies in communications he began making short films and in 2000 made his first feature, The Last Zapatistas. He works as a journalist and teaches Mexican history and documentary script writing at the Centro Morelense de los Artes.

Director: Francesco Taboada Tabone
Subject: Francesco Taboada Tabone
Photography: Francesco Taboada Tabone, Atahualpa Caldera
Editing: Francesco Taboada Tabone, Atahualpa Caldera

Producers: Francesco Taboada Tabone, Fernanda Robinson, Atahualpa Caldera