Mexican train derails, stranding 1,300 migrants headed toward U.S. - tribunedigital-chicagotribune
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A cargo train used by Mexicans and Central Americans to travel toward the U.S. border derailed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Wednesday, stranding about 1,300 migrants, emergency services said.
Many of the migrants aboard were young people and nobody was injured when the train nicknamed "the Beast" came off the tracks, a spokesman for local emergency services said.
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Ever been in Oaxaca? I have. It was a shithole 30 years ago with peasants living in wood shacks that were black from cooking fires. The local intercity buses were like yellow school buses with cages of chickens tied to the top. Toward the Guatemalan border in Chiapas the territory of the Zapatistas the poverty gets worse. There has been a low-level civil war going on for years in parts of Mexico and most of Central America.
It looked a lot like the poverty and share-croppers shacks I saw in the Carolinas in 1960 but even worse -- at least they had fire pits outside or chimneys.
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Quit whining -- this is happening everywhere ... Everywhere where there are wars and repressive governments. I can't offer a solution and I know 100 years from now this will not change.
Assimilating ethnicities does not work too well. There is too much religious hatred and racism to reach a common understanding. Look at the old Soviet Union and Russia today, or for that matter -- the United States. I look at the birds, different birds, colors and ''races'', that feed on and share the seeds I put out for them. Some birds will share the feast but some birds chase the others away
