high quality Mezcal
drug disappear
Jesus Artist Alegre
SAN MIGUEL Totolapa, GRO., May-2011 .- Petlacala is not the most remote community in this town, it is four hours by car from the header, but is representative for its high quality mezcal, a production however, at risk of being lost, for the frank indifference of youth and the prosperity that seems to crop activity and traffic of narcotics in the town Calentana largest producer of drugs.
New blood is not pumped into the already scarce mezcal factories, said the mezcalero disappointed by ancestry, Jesus Reyes Gonzalez, who inherited the taste of his father, former mayor totolapense, Benito Reyes Ocampo, and for now he is ill, so the mezcal Petlacala responsibility has fallen on the man, 47 years old.
PARENT PLACE CHILDREN
Jesus Reyes Gonzalez started making mezcal from 13 years, which is considered gouache in the valleys of the Tierra Caliente, but in the upper parts of the mountains, and are men of responsibilities, including with children and a wife of 11 or 12 years, and also should know their obligations and comply to the letter. Beyond
above, moths, and eight hours journey by motor vehicle, the helicopter arrived last year the former president of the system the Integral Family Development (DIF), Roxana Torreblanca Galindo, and was amazed to see girls of 12 years carrying their children, their reaction was mocking and said jokingly to the presidential couple in the municipality, the mothers infants caparan .
contrary attitude of the current president of the State DIF, Laura del Rocío Herrara de Aguirre, who on Tuesday April 19, compared to adolescents and women of various parties at the head of this municipality, I asked for more love and attention from parents to avoid mistakes of the children.
And in that dynamic, and also what the government has realized is that a mountain man or woman, at 25 or even 28 years, are now grandparents, and 40, great-grandparents, in such a way that people can appreciate without being of the elderly still have met their great-grandchildren.
According to the national survey of population dynamics, 2009, the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI), the country registered for up to three generations of mothers and teen parents and children. Counted in numbers only in the female population, 5 million 264 thousand 133 girls and young women up to 19 years throughout the country, women's group two years ago, became pregnant 67 000 572.
racking and drug cultivation
In Petlacala the last community in the municipality electricity, life is no different, young people prefer the way and diverted it offers them social status and lack of effort early results, "this office (mezcal), is going to end if no one who cares, many people habemos old now, "he said of the point the first producer of mezcal, Jesus Reyes Gonzalez, son of former mayor totolapense, Benito Reyes Ocampo, retired.
municipal commissioner of the community, Mauro Reyes Aguilar, knows the problem and shares the concern of young people go into another line, even has stopped construction of the temple dedicated to their patron saint, Petatlán the Lord, because young people or that they cooperate. A place with clear presence of youth in more than 60 percent of a population of about 300 people.
The truth is that the work we are winning the drug to young people, in fact no one is interested so far in the mezcal, "he said before the inquisitive eyes of some boys with radio transceiver in the waist, instead of cell phones, and watching the basketball court, "a 21", between two pairs of boys, who were fighting for a "six" beers. There
fashion is not who carries the best mobile device, but the more powerful radio, the lucidor more and more money, a lifestyle complete with a good truck, music that tells the story of brave men who faced the police and military, one or two girls in miniskirts and tight pants, and several large denominations .
In these conditions "the mezcal may disappear in this community, because there is a risk that in a few years and can not see even the cultivation of agave, the plant seed decline of 2 000 to 800 liters produced so far, and certainly not reach the 5 000 to require authorities to export to other states, it framed the manufacturer.
SLOW PROCESS AND TIRED
Por la vida ya anhelada bajo el modelo de la moda, a los jóvenes no les da por el trabajo del mezcal, que además es muy cansado. Según la tabla de sueldos, el acarreador, quien se encarga de sacar una “tapada”, percibe 600 pesos diarios; el capeador, quien debe contar entre sus características: ser un joven fuerte para soportar el peso de las bolas de maguey, recibe un pago de 400 pesos por día.
Ello se completa con el que provee de leña, que lleva ocho cargas diarias, por lo que recibe 200 pesos por jornada, se estima que se necesitan 100 cargas del combustible para poder obtener siete tinas o alambiques de madera de ayacahuite, que contienen cada una, entre 100 y 120 litros de mezcal de maguey.
In mezcal can produce four times: in the period October to June, but is a process to achieve each "covered." The first step is that the plant is 14 years old with Kyoto or just picking flowers, of late by the haste and treatment plant have been used for six years, but agricultural processing.
The new plant, the agave is cooked in an oven with the respective betting man, already prepared and ready balls, which are received by the capeador, monitoring is throughout the night to be throwing fuel sufficient to keep the cooking temperature, otherwise, the liquid distillate can get a bitter taste.
After overnight, the liquid is received, it removed the first two liters are called "pussy" for its pungent flavor and should not be allowed to mix with refined mezcal also alter its taste for , and appearance in the finish should be obtained with the known pearls of mezcal.
transparent fluid should not exceed two lines of bubbles on the top, said Reyes Gonzalez, because if the drink makes a lot of foam, you might suspect they added soap, and that's how they do in other parts of the state, accused the producer.
According to market prices Petlacala mezcal has a value of 150 pesos per liter, and sold well locally, "Mezcal is like gold, you can live like this, the thing or the secret is that the government help and do something for those who produce something, which we do in this state, not to abandon us as we had left earlier. " PROBLEM
COLA Tierra Caliente has the most extreme climates in the state, as in the geographical distribution have been recorded up to 48 degrees Celsius in Ciudad Altamirano, with one or two degrees of difference among the nine municipalities of the region; at the mountain of Ajuchitlán del Progreso, Coyuca Catalan and San Miguel Totolapan, the temperature drops to about seven degrees below zero in winter.
The current deputy coordinator of Educational Services (SE), Abel Sanchez Galan, the start of the year said he had not closed one of the 934 schools spread across the region, serving about 5 thousand teachers a little more than 56 thousand students, however, Professor Roberto Bahena Salgado de Coronilla, another community of San Miguel Totolapan, said there are entire villages where the schools are closed and no service.
Arguing violence, whole groups of teachers have decided to leave the classroom. In Pericotepec community, belonging to the zone 166 of primary, not a single school work, and there is a shortfall in the area just mentioned, 18 teachers, and who work 64 to attend a school community of 320 thousand students.
There, exposed the mentor, is no "almost totally", teaching materials, students are malnourished, and there is an absence of fathers and even mothers, who have decided to migrate in search of higher income preferentially to the U.S., "or riding on the run since engaged in that everyone knows, and knows to the government, how do we do anchors pa?".
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