Word: maguey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plows, and the older men and older boys, picks and shovels slung over their shoulders, setting out to work on the road. The boys or girls guide their sheep out to pasture, or bring in the hay for the animals, and Don Margorito or his neighbor moves from one maguey plant to the next, extracting the sweet agua miel that soon ferments into pulche, an alcoholic drink. Or, later, you pass the very small children, laden with Pepsi bottles and tortillas for their fathers' early lunch, scampering through the dust...
Senora Dolores kneels outside her house, scrubbing the family's soiled clothes on a rock. Her small son sits in the large basket with the laundry. Flies perch on his sombrero and face until his mother lovingly brushes them away. The clean clothes hang on the nearby maguey to dry. "How do you like our town.?" she asks. "You are not bored...