As I noted earlier I am away from regular Internet and cell phone service but I wanted to quickly drop an update. I am in a coffee-producing ejido in the tropical sierra above Tapachula, southern Chiapas, near the border with Guetamala, with a "multidisciplinary brigade" independently funded and organized by students of the UNAM. The brigade is working on paving the streets, offering cultural workshops, establishing a library, and fixing the town elementary school's electrical infrastructure. Tacana looms above us. Details when I return to D.F. * Sorry, unable to upload images right now.