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Just down the dirt road from several small adobe houses, past a cat keeping silent watch under a street lamp, past two lounging dogs, 16 students line up outside their one-room concrete school.
The tiniest kid holds the Mexican flag. It’s early March, and during a weekly patriotic ceremony the teacher tells her students about Mexico’s beloved former president, Benito Juarez, whose birthday is later in the month.
“He was an Indian from Oaxaca and a sheepherder just like you,” Maria Gloria Martínez says. “Imagine that, one of you could be president.”"*
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