Word: michoacan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Explains Refugio López Ortega, 45, who earns $3.40 a day as a laborer: "It is tough living in the city but tougher living in the country. I left a little farm in the state of Michoacan in 1942, and I would not return there for anything. I never went to school. Here my children go to school." Ortega and his family of eight live in a single-room jacale at "La Cuchilla" (The Knife), a squatters' community on a ledge high above El Trotche. His food bill is $4 a day, and he must somehow find money...