Article: MEXICO: A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN AN AGE OF INDIGENOUS EXPLOITATION

Brenda Norrell
Circle, The
09-30-1994
MEXICO: A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN AN AGE OF INDIGENOUS EXPLOITATION.

While the bespectacled president-elect Ernesto Zedillo, a Yale PhD, called for unity of Mexico's political parties in order to move forward into the twenty-first century, hundreds of miles to the north, Tarahumara Indians huddled beneath store porches out of the downpour of rain.

Unimpressed, the Tarahumara, who live in caves and cabins in the Sierra Madre Mountains, arrived on foot and by horse-back in Creel and drank bottled Coca-Colas as they sold baskets and sash belts. Their heads did not turn to watch as a small motorcade of Mexican pickup trucks circled the plaza the day after ...

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