Both of them are from Tepoztlan, Mexico, and had eloped after Candido found his wife having an affair. Interestingly enough, his wife is America’s older sister. America has been job hunting since they arrived, daily she goes to the labor exchange in attempts to find any kind of jobs, even with the protests she continues to do her treks to the labor exchange. Candido does not like his wife visiting the exchange because of the men that frequent there remind him of the men that once raped a twelve year old in Tijuana. America manages to find work with Jim Shirley, her duties are cleaning Buddha statues. Their joy and good luck is short lived when their camp is attacked by some teenagers. This forces the couple to move locations to a different side of the mountain. The first section ends with America returning from her second day cleaning Buddha’s, and Candido failing to meet her at the supermarket she decides to hike down to their camp, alone. She runs into a man named Jose Natividad and another man, they chase her, and rape
Both of them are from Tepoztlan, Mexico, and had eloped after Candido found his wife having an affair. Interestingly enough, his wife is America’s older sister. America has been job hunting since they arrived, daily she goes to the labor exchange in attempts to find any kind of jobs, even with the protests she continues to do her treks to the labor exchange. Candido does not like his wife visiting the exchange because of the men that frequent there remind him of the men that once raped a twelve year old in Tijuana. America manages to find work with Jim Shirley, her duties are cleaning Buddha statues. Their joy and good luck is short lived when their camp is attacked by some teenagers. This forces the couple to move locations to a different side of the mountain. The first section ends with America returning from her second day cleaning Buddha’s, and Candido failing to meet her at the supermarket she decides to hike down to their camp, alone. She runs into a man named Jose Natividad and another man, they chase her, and rape