October 22, 2004

Mexico Opens First of Several Universities for Indians

By MARION LLOYD

Mexico City

In an effort to ensure access to higher education for the country's impoverished Indian minority, the Mexican government has opened the first in a planned network of "intercultural universities" that will give priority to indigenous students while working to preserve their languages and cultures.

While Indians officially account for 12 percent of Mexico's 100 million people, so few make it to college that the government does not even

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