San Juan, Montaña de la flor, Honduras
Cipriano Martinez, a Tolupan tribe chief, stands out of his home in San Juan
Cipriano Martinez, a Tolupan tribe chief, stands out of his home in San Juan, Montana de la Flor, August 20, 2008. For more than a century the lived isolated from the civilization in the mountains of Honduras, but now the Tolupanes are threatened by peasants who invade their lands to expand their cultivation and drug dealers who want to sow marijuana in remote areas. Some 600 Tolupanes live in the Montana de la Flor (Mountain of the Flower) out of an ethnic group of almost 20,000 members who speak their own language, the tol. Picture taken August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS)