Mexican Aid Lags for Starving Tarahumara Indians

ABC News Saturday 4th February, 2012

It's been months since Maria Luisa Gonzalez and her husband have been able to harvest anything from their drought-parched land or catch fish in a lake that's become little more than a muddy puddle. Like other Tarahumara Indians suffering in Mexico's vast northern canyons, Gonzalez has been waiting for help since President Felipe Calderon said in...

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