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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 09:40 PM
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Mexico, for first time, to allow Peace Corps volunteers
`The Americans will be tucked away in government research centers, where they will work on information technology, science and business development.'

Mexico has broken a decades-old tradition of rejecting US aid workers, granting permission for the first group of US Peace Corps volunteers ever to work here.

Mindful of national sensitivity over US influence, Mexico plans to keep the group out of public view and will continue to reject US projects in other areas, such as drug-crop substitution.

But for a country that has kicked out or criticized US experts in the past -- and one still sensitive about being viewed as underdeveloped -- this is a big change.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/01/27/2003092639
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