Magnum Photosのインスタグラム(magnumphotos) - 12月13日 23時04分

The Gomez-Brito Family.
La Pista, Nebaj, Guatemala.
By @jacobauesobolnew
Maria is seven years old. She doesn't go to school much because she has to help her family on their piece of land. Sometimes, when there is a small break, she collects berries just for herself to eat. She says that eating berries makes her dream more at night.

The Gomez Brito family lives in a remote area of the mountains in Guatemala near the village of Nebaj. Nebaj is part of the Ixil-triangle – an area of three towns that maintains one of the strongest indigenous cultures in Guatemala. Even though the number of natives makes out the majority of the population in the country, they are still discriminated in many ways. Most of them live in poverty and many work on farms earning a wage of 2-3 dollars a day.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, the Ixil-region was engulfed in a civil war, killing and displacing thousands of Ixil Mayans. During the war the portrayed family lost their youngest child, who died of hunger and disease when hiding in the surrounding mountains. Today, in the very same mountains, the mother Juanita and the father Andrés live with their nine children. Unlike many other families from this area, they have succeeded in keeping the family together by working hard on their own pieces of land. From early morning to sunset the daily routine is to collect fruits and berries, cultivate the land - which mainly consist of corn and beans - and breed the animals.

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