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One afternoon, in a small, hot conference room in San Miguel de Allende, a town in central Mexico, a dozen social workers were arguing about what should happen to Rocio, a sixteen-year-old girl. Rocio was the heroine of a radio soap-opera script they were writing, and, like all such heroines, she was destined to suffer. The story, so far, went like this: Rocio's mother, Apolonia, had come home from her job as a maid to find her nephew, Javier, sexually assaulting Rocio; she chased him away, but didn't take Rocio to the police station for months. The officers had no time for them--they were too busy flirting with each other. ("Hey, Marta, weren't you going to take me out to ...