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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

A modern-day ghost town A rural Mexican community is almost empty

A modern-day ghost town A rural Mexican community is almost empty. Its people are chasing prosperity from their cramped quarters in Rolling Meadows.(Series: Exodus from Mexico)(News)

by Korecki, Natasha

Just miles from other pueblos, where dirt roads slop with mud after a rain, water drips into living rooms and bedsheets hang over open doorways, this tiny, seemingly scrubbed-clean town peeks out brightly.
In Quiringuicharo (key-ding-gwi-CHARO), two-story houses wear fresh coats of paint.
But few cars move through the well-paved streets. No chit-chat can be heard from the shops. No food vendors ply their trade.
The refurbished town square sits empty; no children run playfully down its walkways.
A cross atop a hill can be lighted, but no one has turned it on for months. 


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