Andrew Mutter was born a white Englishman in Tanzania, East Africa in 1956, became a foreign correspondent in Rome, Italy in the 1980s and, after being deported from British Columbia, Canada in 1992 as an undesired Greenpeace activist met the phenomenon of Zapatismo in Chiapas Mexico and now lives as a writer, translator and sweatlodge guide in the Etruscan lands of central Italy.