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The working-class history
of Native Mexico
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The history in general of Native
Mexico
- Police rescue Indian workers exploited near U.S.
Mexican border
- EFE, Sunday 14 November 1999. Baja California police rescued 60
indigenous Mixtec workers, among them 15 minors and two pregnant
women, who were forced to work in a Mexican company located in
the north of Mexico, near the U.S. border. The Indians were led
from Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, to Tijuana under false pretenses
and, once there were forced to work at a shop that made clothes
for golfers.
- The new Indian face of insurgent politics in
Baja California
- By David Bacon, 5 July 2000. Nhe new face of indigenous politics
in Baja California. Both Mixtecs, and their neighboring Zapotecs,
preserved their native pre-Columbian languages and many of their
customs, setting them apart from the Mexican mainstream. The
great exodus of Mixtecs and Zapotecs from their ancestral villages,
forced by poverty to seek jobs as migrant farm laborers in
northern Mexico. Trying to organize an independent union.
