In a book documenting life in Tepito
The neighborhood where people are born and grow angry encabronadas, the place where they learn to rifársela with everything and against everyone. "Because fart asleep and forgets what fucking" and because they do not have time to live the drama of existence.
Tepito, the neighborhood bravo! is a book that recreated the streets and the characters who cry and laugh at one stage: Teocali-Tepitón in whose root is the origin of the 'neighborhood Chilango of Chilango. "
The volume, co-edited by Trilce-Ocean-records the photographic work of Francisco Mata, who figures to immortalize as Arturo Ayala Plascencia, braces, who seems to be the spitting image of Tin Tan, Mike and Richie, who clowns in her eyes hidden melancholy ; Of Guadalupe Reyna, La Guerilla, or the tines of himself Ruben Olivares, who was four times world champion of boxing.
Voices of the protagonists
The book also gathers testimonies of the protagonists in the neighborhood: merchants, musicians workers, nurses, drivers, stylists, Tinsmiths, because as a concern, "humility, simplicity is what makes us great."
Of them can find many stories, like when the neighborhood had only one bathroom for 15 or 20 people, the movement of 85, who joined the district, or the history of Angel Hernandez Enciso and her devotion to Santa Muerte.
The districts that existed, and how is the ambulantaje populating the streets. The current Tepito is an example of what can happen to any neighborhood when comes modernity.
"Times change but love endures," said Francisco Mata. Each line of the book reveals that "blessed neighborhood" of history, bravery, culture, traditions and customs. Summarized in one word: resistance.
Tepito well described in the interviews conducted by Alfredo Matus, texts Fabrizio Mejia Madrid, Alfonso Hernandez and Fernando Cesar Ramirez. A publication in the Government who worked in the Federal District, the National Council for Culture and the Arts, the National Institute of Fine Arts Gallery and Jose Maria Velasco.
"The street is a jungle of cement and wild beasts, of course. There is no longer who quit crazy happy, wherever he expected the worst, "snippet of the song Héctor Pavón, which explains a job documented in the Tepito who generously opened their doors to meet you.
Via La Jornada
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