Voice That Sounds Like Home Welcomes Mexico ’sOutsiders (fwd link)

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FRESNO JOURNAL
Voice That Sounds Like Home Welcomes Mexico’s Outsiders

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: June 8, 2009
USA

FRESNO, Calif. — The voice trembled with anguish.

“Please,” Esmeralda Santiago pleaded, calling into a radio show here aimed at
the poorest of Mexico’s emigrants, indigenous people from the southern state of
Oaxaca. “This is for Sylvia Santiago. Please, if you can hear us, call. Our
mother is worried because we have not talked with you in a while.”

Filemón López, the host of the show, listened and nodded. He had heard such
heartache before. The woman spoke first in Spanish and then repeated her plea —
breaking down in sobs — in Triqui, one of Oaxaca’s indigenous languages.

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