Summary
Lucia Carmona Rincon doesn t know when her husband will return to their rural pueblo in Michoacan. After five years of marriage, her husband, "Rigo" left her and their two young daughters to earn money in the Inland Empire. Nearly 18 months have passed since they last saw him.
"At first I couldn t get used to (the separation), because we were together every day," Lucia, 30, said in January from her parents adobe home. "Now I am getting used to it. He speaks to me every eight days, and I know he is fine ... I don t miss him as much."See the full content of this document
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A World Apart
Lucia and countless other women of Tacatzcuaro live more than a thousand miles away from their husbands, who settle across the border to try and i...
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