Matavenero [DVD]

While the inhabitants of the area abandoned their towns throughout the 20th century, others escaped this development to return to their roots and contact with nature. Thus Matavenero, an abandoned town, came back to life in the 80s, seeing the birth of a new interracial or rainbow community where 'everyone fit'. This renewed life was expressed metaphorically in the large number of births in the town and in the ecological and orderly management of a town that has attracted visitors and inhabitants of all types and nationalities. His philosophy of life is respect for nature and organic agriculture. Its resources include agriculture, transportation with donkeys and horses, crafts, clothing making, sculpture, painting, medicinal plants, homeopathy, shiatshu, bach flowers, beekeeping, wood-fired bread and of course knowledge apart from the world. They take advantage of different natural resources: solar energy, wind energy, water supply, etc. Also the use, reuse and recycling of all types of used materials. The organization and administration of the town is self-management with decision-making by consensus and its own infrastructure in matters of health, education, transportation and supplies. There is a doctor, psychologist and school for small children. The older children go to school in the town of San Facundo. The social structure of Matavenero is family, although it has certain common resources: bakery, common room, doctor, school, etc.