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Los Hombres Del Campo

Author: Leo Matiz
Date Published: 1997


Presentation: we Decide to carry out this project to honor and to recognize the effort that have done always the men of the Mexican field. We cannot forget that, through their customs, these men give us pride, firmness, love pursuit our land, sense of ownership, notion of country, in synthesis key factors of national identity. The men of the field are men of principles, of effort, commitment and, above all, they love the nature, from there their great nobility. But we have to recognize that they require today training, aid, confidence and impulse of the others Mexican. It is our responsibility to take up again the values of the men of the field and to adapt them to our vision looking al next millennium. Mexico, today is found I insert in a highly competitive market to international level, where the efficiency and the productivity play each time more a protagonist role. Because of it is indispensable that all the ones that participate in the alimentary chain we change the conception of the agriculture, to be able to reach the self-sufficiency would feed of the Mexicans, increasing the agricultural profit value and improving substantially the quality of life of the men of the field and its families. By the pages of The Men Of The Field they parade images of yesterday and of today. Faces, hands and landscapes; witnesses of our geography, rich and vast of the beautiful and complex human nature. We thank to all the ones that they made possible this book and in spatial to our friend I Read Shade, who put the mirror of their art al service of the Mexico deeper, more essential. Finally, we desire that these images be a commemorative one of our social commitment as the Mexicans. This item is not available for distribution. Please contact NCFH at (512) 312-5464 for more information on this resource.

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