"La     Cuerda    Floja" 1997

"La cuerda floja" (The loose rope) watercolor, Honduras, 1997. Growing up, I saw the deadly effects of alcohol in our communities. Alcohol as is commercially produced and excessively consumed today was not familiar to Native people of this continent.   Rates of alcohol-related medical problems and mortality are higher among communities with historically least exposure to it, and are more vulnerable to the negative effects of it. 

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