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...Verdugo, widely known as La Rana (the Frog), was walking the streets of tiny San Felipe, Mexico, on Jan. 24 when six masked men pounced on him and whisked him into an unmarked car. They drove their blindfolded captive north to an obscure stretch of the Mexican border near Calexico, Calif., where they handed him through a hole in the fence to U.S. marshals. He is now in a San Diego jail awaiting trial on smuggling charges...
...here toward heritage." Says Robert Stuchen, vice president of the Capin Mercantile Corp., one of Arizona's largest employers: "My kids are not aware of prejudices here in Nogales. We're probably more Mexicanized than the Mexicans are Americanized." Merchant Fred Knechel, president of the Chamber of Commerce in Calexico, Calif., across the line from Mexicali, contends that there are "class prejudices but not racial prejudices on the border...
...crime, and they expect to arrest more policemen as the search widens. In Washington on Friday, Mexican Attorney General Sergio Garcia Ramirez met with Edwin Meese, his U.S. counterpart, on future joint drug-control operations. Meanwhile, on Highway 111 near Camarena's home in the California town of Calexico, a billboard put up by his friends carried a dire message for those who are thinking of crossing the border...
...expanding interdependence of the two countries is strikingly visible in such U.S. border towns as Calexico, Calif., Nogales, Ariz., and El Paso. During Mexico's boom, local economies flourished as Mexicans crossed the border in droves to buy American-made cars, clothing and food. But the peso's declining value, together with strict controls on the amount of U.S. currency Mexicans can obtain, has virtually halted the flow of Mexican customers, and merchants complain of near Depression business conditions...
...Small Business Administration is trying to help American merchants ride out the crisis by establishing a $200 million assistance program that includes Government-backed loans at 14.5% interest. Many sinking border businessmen see this as scant support. "We don't want SBA aid," says Calexico furniture-store Manager Roberto Platero. "We can take care of our own if we could find some way to exchange the pesos." But a meeting of several U.S. and Mexican Governors in San Diego a week ago produced no solutions...