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Whose child is this? "Banning" Mexico City's street kids only moves their plight from sight.

Publication: U.S. Catholic
Publication Date: 01-AUG-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Whose child is this? "Banning" Mexico City's street kids only moves their plight from sight.(margin notes)

Article Excerpt
IF YOU HAVE EVER VISITED MEXICO CITY YOU MAY HAVE enjoyed their antics as part of the federal district's colorful backdrop. Maybe you can spot them edging out from the corner of your vacation photos: the late-night Chiclets salesmen, the street jugglers and clowns, the grinning, cajoling panhandlers.

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They are Mexico City's street children, tolerated, even subtly promoted as part of the city's charm.

Their day lives entertaining or huckstering on the streets certainly seem charming enough. It's the night lives of these often abandoned and forgotten kids that can get a little less pleasantly cinematic....

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