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At 80 years, Juan Diaz of San Marcos has only a hazy recollection that something was once amiss at the local train station. The abandoned train station near San Marcos in Western Jalisco, Mexico was part of the route used to move Yaquis from Sonora to the henequen fields of Yucatan in the early 1900s. It is said that 15,000 of them were exiled.

At 80 years, Juan Diaz of San Marcos has only a hazy recollection that something was once amiss at the local train station. The abandoned train station near San Marcos in Western Jalisco, Mexico was part of the route used to move Yaquis from Sonora to the henequen fields of Yucatan in the early 1900s. It is said that 15,000 of them were exiled.

© John Pint, 2009

Source article: Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station
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