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Mexican government does nothing to discourage those who
aspire to leave, and in fact, excepts to many of the strategies
applied by our immigration officials in their futile efforts to stem the tide.
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The Indian presents its own special problem. A large majority have been absorbed into the Mexican population. As you "people watch" on a park bench the strong features of the pure Indian frequently come into view. And history has no^ end of examples of the Indian entering into the affairs of mestizo population.
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Example: two leaders were of the Zapotec race - Benito Juarez and Porfirio Diaz.
The front line troops of General Obregon at Celaya, the last
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major battle in the 1910 Revolution, were Yaguis from the
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State of Sonora.
But many of those who were raised in the Indian culture seek to maintain a familar lifestyle although the sweeping changes
in the country force these people into an impossible position.
In the years of Spanish rule, the Indian was little more than a slave, however, the Mayan in his remote world was able to maintain the form of living which followed the breakup of the culture. In southern Mexico and Guatemala, then and now,
patches of the forest are burned and the land tilled. There was little communication with the government, and the main