Workers from the popoluca community in Ocotal Grande, San Pedro Soteapan municipality, State of Veracruz, Mexico.
Popoluca is a Nahuatl term (meaning "gibberish, unintelligible speech") given to various indigenous communities of southeastern Veracruz. It is a derogatory exonym the Aztecs applied to different communities from Mexico. In fact, the term popoluca is similar in connotation and meaning to the term barbarian used by Greeks and Romans. The popolucas are linguistic and cultural descendants of the Olmecas, mother civilization of Mesoamerica.