<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Oaxaca’s annual festival is expected to have over four thousand attendees this year</span></p>
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Frontera NorteSur</p>
<p>&nbsp;The struggling corn fields of northern Chihuahua and the shuttered textile plants of North Philadelphia might seem worlds apart.&nbsp; Although nationhood, language and culture separate the two places, a history of globalization, deindust-rialization and drug culture shape both entities.</p>

 Editor’s Note: The following is in response to the commentary in La Prensa San Diego, “An Open letter to the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Charles B. Reed, California State University System,” by Gracia Molina de Pick, published Sept. 18, 2009, written in response to SDSU’s new admissions policy.

An Open Letter to the SDSU Community