Hospitals Struggle To Help Farmworkers Who Speak Triqui Or Mixteco

"None explained anything to me," said Diaz-Ramirez. A year ago, she was picking strawberries nearby. These opportunities are one reason why Argelia Zarate, the Oxnard school district's first full-time Mixteco interpreter, encourages students to practice their Mixteco so they don't lose it. Farmworker Angelina Diaz-Ramirez returned home after her surgery with a new pacemaker ticking in her chest -- and a stack of printed instructions that she couldn't read. "I didn't know what to do," she said th