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FOLK TALE


FOLK TALE

Vendor offers high school auxiliary books for sale around the Mexico area. Less than thirty thousand students passed university entrance exams this year out of close to a million examinees. Government books have yet to be properly distributed for most secondary and primary school students who comprise the next generation of university entrants. The new wave of reforms ushered by the current Ministry of Education has introduced a remedial program for a year, offering general courses.  

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Parliament Receives $237m Development Loan Package

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