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"In a poor country like ours, the alternative to low-paid jobs isn't well-paid ones; it's no jobs at all."
-Jesús Reyes-Heroles, Mexico's Ambassador to the USA
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Monday, April 24, 2006
-Jesús Reyes-Heroles, Mexico's Ambassador to the USA
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