The hillside of indigenous town of San Juan Mixtapec has traditionally had the highest number of migrants going to the US in all of Mexico, informs Aljazeera.net Tuesday.
In a town where nearly half of the people are illiterate and more than 60 per cent do not even have a primary education going north always meant that they could send money back home to their families who were in desperate need.
However, with the current economic recession nearly a quarter of the migrants have returned.
In need of jobs, the local government is trying to create employment programmes but it’s not enough.
