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MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2003

The overwhelming majority of Mexico's Native population lives in poverty, The Washington Post reports.

Xochitl Galvez, Mexico's first cabinet official for indigenous affairs, says 90 percent of the nation's 12 million indigenous. Most of the areas where malnutrition is a major risk are Indian, she adds.

In a rural town known as Tehuipango, poverty, malnutrition and disease are rampant. There is no running water, no electricity and almost not infrastructure to speak of. Most of the residents are Nahua Indians.

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Malnutrition Blights Mexico's Young (The Washington Post 6/9)