The Mexican landscape fades into ash and dust, fragmented, deformed and burnt. Behind barbed wire fences, forests, rivers and mountains fall into the hands of private companies. Once transformed, the landscape becomes a separate universe, an incongruous and dangerous area where the new masters and their mercenaries terrorize the population into silence.
Like other farmers across the country, Roberto de la Rosa is now walking along trails full of traps. In recent years, Mexico has recorded the highest number of murders of land defenders.