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Mexico: A Spill-Over of Hatred

Latin Americans living in US border towns are getting the brunt of US police backlash from the recent Los Angeles race riots. Eduardo Molina of IPS reports from Mexico City. ■
POLICE violence against the Latinos, or Latin Americans who live in Ihc United States, is causing great.anxiety tn Mexico.
Mexican officials say US border policemen have been constantly harassing Latin Americans, most of them Mexicans, on the pretext of investigating looting incidents supposedly done by blacks and other minority groups al the tail-end of April.
Mexican legislator Silvia Hernandez said Ihc brutal treatment that Mexicans living In the southern stales suffer al the hands of the US border patrol reflects "a feeling of hatred motivated by Ihc recent violent events in lz>s Angeles".
Bloody riots broke oul on April 29 In Ixjs Angeles after a US jury acquitted four while LA policemen on trial for beating and mistreating Rodney King, an African-American motorist. Mobs stormed the streets, indiscriminately looting and burning buildings and occasionally bcallng up whiles who crossed
their paths.
Hernandez, who presides over the Senate Commission on Human Rights, said ihc Mexican issue was one of the main points discussed on the 32nd Interparliamentary Meeting held early May in the US city of San Antonio. Texas.
"Wc arc vigorously protesting the situation and wc have warned the US government that the situation could worsen due to Ihc recent racial confrontation," she said.
Madelaine Janis, spokesperson of a coalition of groups working to protecl Latin American workers from human rights abuses, said border patrol agents began shooting the Hispanos after the recent racial riots.
Under the pretext of searching Ihc area for looters, the US authorities harassed and arrested indocumcnlados, Mexican workers who cross the Rio Bravo frontier in
search of employment.
The Mexican Foreign Ministry has presented a formal protest lo stop the human rights violalions against the workers through its consul in Los Angeles, Jose Angel Pcseador.
Latinos in Ihc United Stales number some 24 million and comprise about nine percent of the total US population, a report from the US Justice Department said. In cities like Los Angeles, people of Latin American origin arc almost as many as those of Anglo-Saxon origin.
Each year some 800,000 . I.atlnos arc violently robbed
whole another 2.2 million arc victims of assault and house burgkuy.
In southern United States, there arc about three million l.aiin Americans without legal work permits. Most of them are Mexicans, who lake on jobs in farms as fruit or teg-ctablc pickers and in the service sector as cleaning personnel.
The African-Americans, who number about 30 million, comprise over 12 percent of the total US population. Official records show less blacks arc crime victims than Latin Americans tn the United Stales.
Analysis say racial clashes in Ihc United Stales arc not limited to hostile confrontations between blacks and whites.
"There Is also conflict between the different minority groups" said Mexican researcher Davo Gutierrez. "Many blacks living in the poor areas arc the Mexicans as competitors-."
The recent events have highlighted friction among minority groups,, which now include a growing number of Asians. In the Los Angeles area, Korcan-Amcrlcans have been one of the more specific targets of black ire for years.
Some African-Americans contend the Asian newcomers who usually establish mom-and-pop type of stores in predominantly block neighborhoods lake advantage of them.
"In the capitalist jungle, the law of survival In the cause of inter-racial clashes in the United Stales as well as in
Europe," commented GUtt-errez.
Other analysts confirmed the recent racial violence was "an explosion of reality" that revealed the hidden wounds left by ncoltbcral policies Implemented by the US government since former US President Ronald Reagan assumed power in January 1982.
N. Pipltonc. a researcher from the Colcglo de Mexico, said incidents like the LA riots come about when a government becomes indifferent to the realities of the people.
Added Pipltonc : 'This is a big step backward in the lives of millions of people who, since they cannot flow along with the rest of society toward modernity, arc simply left In Institutional oblivion."
He said the racial tunnoil In Los Angeles, which has spread to other US cities and Latin American countries, represents the sudden and violent awakening of a marginalised people who. until the Rodney King verdict, had opted to remain silent.