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BBC – Ecuador poverty drives migrants north

Published

September 8, 2010

The BBC reports on poverty in Ecuador:

An Ecuadorean teenager survived a shocking massacre of 72 migrants near the US-Mexican border last month. As the BBC’s Irene Caselli finds out, the tiny village he left behind remains mired in poverty, and is now living in fear of reprisals.

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