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Article: OPINION: As Mexico's schools go, so goes its economy: And the number of migrants headed north.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2007
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Byline: William McKenzie
Jul. 24--CIUDAD JUaREZ, Mexico -- At barely 10 in the morning, gangly, smiling school kids already were lugging desks onto a concrete slab in the barren playground of the Socorro Rivera elementary school.
Graduation day was at hand. There were desks to line up, dances to practice and a sound system to erect before Socorro Rivera's sixth-graders could walk across a makeshift stage, shake their principal's hand and collect their certificates.
When dusk settled in, a glorious red sunset nestled up against the surrounding mountains. About 500 parents and siblings filled the dusty lot. (That included "Snakeman," whose command ...
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