Trozas

A young Indigenous laborer trapped in a brutal Chiapas mahogany camp witnesses the violence and exploitation of debt slavery in the fourth volume of B. Traven’s iconic Jungle Novels.

When the profit-hungry Montellano brothers take over a remote mahogany plantation in the jungles of Chiapas, the Indigenous workers already trapped there find themselves subjected to even more brutal demands. Among them is Andrés Ugaldo, a young laborer whose grueling work hauling enormous mahogany logs through swamps and jungle exposes him to hunger, violence, disease, and the ever-present threat of death. As the plantation owners tighten their grip and treat their workers as expendable commodities, Andrés and his fellow laborers begin to recognize the shared injustice that binds them together.

A harrowing and unsparing novel of exploitation, resistance, and human endurance, Trozas is one of B. Traven’s most powerful indictments of the human cost hidden behind a most coveted natural resource.