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Article: Migrants launch two-month relay from Mexico City to New York, calling for right to vote in Mexican elections
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- October 10, 2004
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TRACI CARL, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
10-10-2004
Dateline: MEXICO CITY
Mexican migrants launched a two-month relay Sunday from Mexico's capital to New York City, calling on lawmakers here to grant them the right to cast absentee ballots for Mexico's 2006 presidential elections and organizing undocumented workers along the way.
The relay is in its third year, following a route that travels through northeast Mexico, then the southern and eastern United States, with runners carrying a torch to New York City in honor of Mexico's patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Some 5,000 runners will carry the torch, sometimes passing through farm towns with only a few people along, and other ...
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