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Article: Magnet for Globophobes.(Brent Berlin)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Newsweek International
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- April 9, 2001
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With his goatee, sandals and dreams of retiring to his house in the rebel land of Chiapas, Brent Berlin evokes the image of an aging hippie. One of the few outsiders who speaks Tzeltal, a local language, the 64-year-old anthropologist and herbalist now finds himself vilified as a "biopirate" working with big drug companies to rip off the medicinal secrets of the Mayans. Indians backed by international activists are trying to chase Berlin out of Chiapas, which has Mexico's largest concentration of indigenous people, most of them desperately poor. "The globalization train has left the station," he says. "I want to help the Mayans get on. My opponents want to stop the ...
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