Tuwaliri Paketzalli
Abuela Tuwaliri Paketzalli is formally trained as a medical doctor. A longtime member of the Dominican Communist Party, she actively studied Western medicine and practiced acupuncture, but did not believe in anything else besides the will of the people. It was after the death of her mother in 2013 that she began to “
Tuwaliri Paketzalli walks across a field planted with corn, peppers and other food plants. Here she is in front of her cayena.
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