On the ground: Yalies lend a hand in Mexico
MONTERREY, Mexico — Stranded in the mountains on the outskirts of industrialized Monterrey is a sprawling slum called Alianza Reál. The shantytown is home to 40,000 Mexicans, most of them displaced persons. Ten thousand children attend school in a building no larger than Connecticut Hall. They live without plumbing or sanitation. The nicest homes are cinder-block cubes; the rest are made of cardboard, scrap metal and corrugated tin.
It was here that 60 Yale alumni and current students arrived earlier this month for the Association of Yale Alumni’s service tour, bringing with them a...
the writer has clear and undeniable colonial bias. his dominatrix attitude toward the poor displays a profound ignorance and blindness towards real problems.
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