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Writer's Voice

We spend the hour with leg­endary trav­el writer and nov­el­ist Paul Ther­oux, talk­ing about his lat­est book, ON THE PLAIN OF SNAKES: A Mex­i­can Jour­ney. We also hear a poem by the renowned Mex­i­can poet Javier Sicilia.

Our con­ver­sa­tion with Paul Ther­oux takes us from the US bor­der to the jun­gles of Chi­a­pas, as Ther­oux tells us about the resilience of the Mex­i­can peo­ple in the face of vio­lence and bad gov­ern­ment, the preser­va­tion of ancient tra­di­tions by the poor­est com­mu­ni­ties and the inspir­ing rebel­lion in the south by the Zap­atis­tas, who have cre­at­ed their own lib­er­at­ed territory.