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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Tens of thousands march in Mexico City to protest tortilla prices

By Ioan Grillo

ASSOCIATED PRESS

8:30 p.m. January 31, 2007

MEXICO CITY – About 75,000 trade unionists, farmers and leftists marched through downtown Mexico City on Wednesday to protest price increases for basic foods like tortillas – the staple of Mexico's poor – and to demand a change in economic policy.

The march represented a challenge to President Felipe Calderón's market-oriented policies and one banner read “Calderón stole the elections, and now he's stealing the tortillas!” Others waved handfuls of the flat corn disks and chanted “Tortillas si, Pan no!” a play on the initials of Calderón's National Action Party, the PAN, which also means “bread” in Spanish.

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