Discarica tossica (Toxic Dumping)

Nicolas Défossé, 2007, Mexico 17’

“ …the toxic and nuclear residuals are not stocked in residential zones of New York and Washington. They are sent to indigenous lands” the Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos says while he listens to the community North in the State of Sonora, near to the border with the United States. There, in the middle of the desert, ancestral land of the indigenous population Pápago (O’odham). The Mexican Government authorized the erection of a dumping ground for toxic residuals. The population of Quitovac, a village that stand in the middle of the conflict, asks how to escape from his death sentence.