Sex, death and desert snafus
A new plan to help migrants stirs passions
IT HAS been dubbed “the happy box”, and is the latest wheeze from President Vicente Fox's government to help Mexicans who illegally cross the border into the United States each year. The plan, costing $2m, is to furnish 200,000 of them with a survival kit: a box containing medicines, bandages, anti- dehydration powder, water and emergency rations to help on the dangerous trek across the deserts that straddle the border. But 25 condoms?
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Sex, death and desert snafus”
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