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Oaxaca Assembly of the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations - 2008

13 FIOB

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13 Santiago de Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca
The assembly of the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations in Mixteca region of Oaxaca, one of the poorest areas in Mexico, where a large percentage of the indigenous population has left to work in the United States. The FIOB is a political organization of indigenous communities and migrants, with chapters in Mexico and the U.S. It advocates for the rights of migrants, and for the right not to migrate -- for economic development which would enable people to stay home. Newly-elected coordinator Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, a Mixtec professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, talks to the gathering.
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