moizen on Nostr: Out of all the traditional professions that existed at Tlaxiaco and nowadays struggle ...

Out of all the traditional professions that existed at Tlaxiaco and nowadays struggle to survive, probably the muleteer (Arriero) is the one I would feel the most sorry about. As the book describes, the built of the Pan-American Highway displaced the need of using beasts to carry goods and commuters. Simply put, the time preference was other before the development of motor vehicles.
That could sound obvious and rightful in the conventional sense of "development", that is, to take whatever product or service and to scale it harder, better, faster, stronger. What might not be so obvious is the loci of the place displaced by a new architecture, that being for this case, under the convention of the muleteers villages and roads were build in the fashion of the local experience, in direct contact with nature if one likes to say so. Nowadays the muleteers experience might be reserved for tourism and old fashioned cowfrens; however, —as with many of traditional professions—, it shouldn't be missed as a way to "make place", or build citadels 😉 .