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Article: The Annexation of Mexico.
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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The Annexation of Mexico by John Ross Common Courage Press. 345 pages. $19.95
I braked to a stop to wait in the line of cars returning to California from Tijuana. A group of brown-skinned children approached the car, begging for money, selling Chiclets, giggling, speaking an Indian language.
I asked a teenaged girl, dressed in stained indigenous garb, where she came from.
"Mixteco," she said. "We're from Valle Verde, Guerrero." In broken English, she said I'd have to pay her a dollar if I wanted to take her picture. Then she laughed. She held a plastic bag over her face to prevent me from photographing her.
"This is a TV camera," I ...