Home reading - Veracruz
the typical music of Veracruz.Between numbers androunds of beer and bpiled shrimp
dueling marimba bands launch into ear-busting renditions of "Veracruz" the unofficial state
anthem by native spn Agustin Lara."For veracruzanos" says veteran marimba player Matias
Montejo, "music is the highest thing"
Racking up points, youngsters test their skills on la maquinita, their name for the video game
outside a grocery store in Tlacotalpan.for a peso, players get to run high-tech obstacle courses
in five mythical worlds.In real life they will be lucky to get to past the obstacles of their own
world,a dwindling town of 15,000 in the Papaloapan River Basin."It's a nice
town,peaceful,clean and secure ,"says store owner Felipe Romeo."But there's nothing muvh
for the kids to do once they finish scool.Nothing but fishing and raising sucarcane, beans or
bananas.If they want something else, they have to leave."
annaabi.ee 
