Not far from Schuyler, at Columbus Community Hospital, between half and 60% of the babies born in the past two years were Hispanic, according to headnurse Diane Ward.
Marta Cecilia Guapacha, the headnurse at the town's San Francisco hospital, says that she has treated many cases of poisoning, skin rashes and respiratory and eye problems which she believes to be caused by herbicides sprayed by police crop-dusting planes.