A chapopero, literally the tar man, shows his oil-covered hands after cleaning a waist-deep pond of spilled crude oil in La Venta, Mexico, Oct. 26, 2001. Bucketful by bucketful, the tar men scoop crude oil from the water and empty it into a little black sheet-metal skiff that floats like an evil toy on a black lake. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
