Compañeros en Salud

JALTENANGO de la PAZ, Mexico — Lauren O’Connell commutes to her job over single-lane dirt roads that hug the mountains of Mexico’s southern Chiapas state. The driver carries a machete to clear the path after a storm. In the rainy season, the four-wheel-drive truck sometimes has to jostle and slide through deep mud pits on stretches where a false move could send the vehicle and everyone in it over a steep cliff. Read more.