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Socialist Resistance no25 | page 21-22

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and: umily while the number of finale heads of household both rural and urban, has doubled in a single deca, 2.

Tl susands of indigenous wom n and their children labor : in subhuman condition: in the fields for a pittanc picking crops for expo t by transnational companis. Further along the glob: lisation chain mestiza women factory workers pack then and immigrant women serve up the finished products in fa: t-food restaurants.

Tle rape and murder of Ciudad Juarez has caused an outcry. the perpetrators to justice and bodies continue to appear half-buried in the desert dust.

Domestic violence claims the lives of 14 women a day in Mexico, but the law in six states does not consider domestic violence a crime and twelve do not penalise rape in marriage.

Women's lives come cheap in other ways too. According to the UN representative on violence against $1000 will buy a little girl on the southern border of the Mexican state of Chiapas.

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