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Cantineras Risk Alcoholism to Earn Good Money

By Keith Plocek

Houston Press | July 6, 2005

In Houston's cantinas, women are paid to entice men to buy them drinks. Some took up the line of work to pay off the coyote who helped them cross the border.

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Tags: illegal immigrants, Mexico, Prostitution, alcoholism, Central America

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