Luis J. Rodriguez: In the Sierra Madre…

“A close friend of mine, Jeff Biggers, has written a fascinating book, “In the Sierra Madre,” published this fall by the University of Illinois Press. The Sierra Madre in Mexico is one of the world’s best known mountain ranges; books and movies have been written about it, most famously by B. Traven (”The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”).

Jeff spent a year on the western side of the Mother Range (the Sierra Madre Occidental) where some 80,000 Raramuri (Tarahumara) indigenous people live in the stark, craggy, and pine-infested canyons known as La Barranca de Cobre (The Copper Canyon). He was there with Carla Paciotto, his long-time girlfriend, and now wife, who was studying bilingual processes with the Mexican educational system and the Raramuri.”

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