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...right. At night, along the railroad running north from Tapachula, Jose Pedro Tello Cuevas, southern operations chief of the government's migrant-protection unit, listens to a 25-year-old Salvadoran electrician named Edwin Oswaldo Portillo tell of handing over $4,000 to the state police. "File a charge," Tello Cuevas tells him. But few of the Central Americans would ever dream of taking a case to court; hence a tradition of official corruption continues unabated...
...York taught me that culturally I was more than a Mexicana. There were Puerto Ricans and Dominicans on my street; I went to school with them, along with Cubans, Argentines and Peruvians; I bumped into Salvadoran and Chilean refugees in community centers. I began to see that I was part of a continent--from Patagonia to el Caribe. I still called myself a Mexicana, but I came to consider myself something bigger, a Latina without borders...
...annual protests began in 1992, "after the murder of six Jesuit priests and their housekeeper and her daughter by El Salvadoran troops trained by the SOA," she added...
Elsa Miriam Linares, a member of Asociacion de Educares Salvadorenos, a Salvadoran teacher union, discussed the situation in her native country in Spanish. Her speech was translated by Lena Entin of CISPES...
...edge over the local gang-bangers. "These kids might have been low-level gang members back in the States, but when they come here, they're like the Nike of the gang world," says Magdalena Rose Avila, founder of Homeys Unidos, which helps deported gang members settle into Salvadoran society. "One guy I know recruited 60 or 70 soldiers to his gang in six months...