Hopes that Americans will keep buying heroic quantities of Mexican manufactured goods are dimming.

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No matter how badly they are victimized, brave reporters will go to heroic lengths to ignore, underplay or explain away their suffering.

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But heroic optimism is needed to believe that these will come from the ranks of those currently unemployed, or most of their children.

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