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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Philip Ferolito / The Bulletin
March 24, 2009
YAKIMA, Wash. — Miguel Blas-Matus vividly recalls growing up with seven siblings in a one-room, dirt-floor house in his homeland of Juchitan, Oaxaca, Mexico.
He’d get up before dawn to help his father — who only spoke the indigenous Zapotec language — farm....
