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BBC News By Stephanie Hegarty image captionDisinformation has led to indigenous communities choosing not to get vaccinated In November Pascuala Vázquez Aguilar had a strange dream about her village Coquilteel, nestled among the trees in the mountains of southern Mexico. A plague had come to the village and everyone ran to the forest. They hid in a hut under a tall canopy of oak trees. The plague couldn t reach us there, Pascuala says. That s what I saw in my dream. A few months later the pandemic had engulfed Mexico and thousands of people were dying every week. But Coquilteel and many small, indigenous towns in the state of Chiapas were left relatively unscathed. This has been a blessing but it also presents a problem. ....