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...seems wondrously easy. The average wife who hates her average husband and has an average competent lawyer, can get on a plane to El Paso, say, and be back home the next day-divorced. From El Paso she crosses the border to Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. She makes her way past bars and tacky tourist shops to the Municipal Palace, where she meets a Mexican lawyer by prearrangement, signs the great registration ledger of the clerk of the court, pays one dollar, and gets a slip of paper certifying that she is indeed...
With the paper she acquires instant residence, the chief attraction of Mexican divorces. (Nevada and Idaho require all of six weeks; Alabama, once an easy-divorce state, now requires a full year's residence.) It takes only another few minutes for the judge to grant a divorce; by Chihuahua law, his court now has jurisdiction over the visitor. All further steps will be handled by the Mexican lawyer. The new divorcee gets her elaborate Spanish decree with its impressive ribbons and seals. Legal costs can amount to as little as $500, or as much as the traffic will bear...
Last week Telefonos de Mexico, of which Trouyet is chairman, launched a $200 million, five-year expansion program to double the number of phones and long-distance lines in the country. Celulosa de Chihuahua, of which Trouyet is co-founder and 8% owner, is in the midst of a $15 million expansion that will double its annual production of pulp to 110,000 tons. At the same time, Trouyet is putting the finishing touches on a deal to start a Mexican investment trust company, with assets...
...forgotten.'' Tearfully, Mrs. Villa accepted a scroll, responding in turn with gifts to the Pancho Villa Museum of Columbus: her husband's field telephone and a $1,000,000 bundle of currency issued at his command. Remaining at her 52-room mansion in Chihuahua City was the bullet-riddled 1920 Dodge in which Villa met his death by assassination...
Writer & Patron. Things came hard to him from the beginning. A Mexican with enough Irish in him to make Quinn his real name, he was bora in Chihuahua during Pancho Villa's revolt. Fleeing the country, his 16-year-old mother carried him 500 miles on her back to Juarez and eventually to El Paso, where his 19-year-old father rejoined them. "My youth was all whirlwinds of sand and threatening rain." he says. The family rode a cattle car to California, where they worked m orchards picking fruit and nuts, eating walnut gruel for breakfast and sleeping...