Word: ciudad
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...Guadalajara, Monterrey and Mexico City. Some 64% of the population now dwell in cities and towns. For a fortunate few, like Salvador Reyes Garcia, 28, the trip to the city has been worth it. Nine years ago, Reyes left a remote village in the Chihuahua desert for Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. There he landed a job as a sewing machine operator in a clothing factory at the minimum
Four decades just could not be swept away overnight. When the first Communist campaign caravan rolled through Ciudad Real, old women crossed themselves. "As far as they were concerned, we were people with horns on our heads and bombs under each arm," said a party worker. "That's all they had ever known." While leftist parties did open some offices in villages, they made few converts. In one pueblo, a leftist coalition called a rally and found exactly two people in attendance. "Comrades," began one of the speakers, whereupon the two men stepped forward and identified themselves as Civil Guards...
This is "El Trotche," a ciudad perdida (lost city), or urban slum, less than half a mile from Mexico City's fashionable Paseo de la Reforma. It was early Saturday morning, but drunks were already weaving their way down the slope from a little clandestine tavern selling pulque, a cheap but potent drink that the Aztecs used during religious ceremonies. The people of El Trotche are at the bottom of Mexican society, which calls them paracaidistas (paratroopers) because they seem to parachute out of the sky onto any vacant piece of land. Then, like an army of ants, they...
...much of its oil income to build a huge steel industry that will exploit its iron ore and great sources of hydroelectric power. Deep in the backlands on the Orinoco River, more than 200,000 people have already clustered in the government run, iron-and-steel community of Ciudad Guayana, where international businessmen come to swing deals, dine on fine French food and gaze upon spectacular waterfalls. Pérez aims to raise steel output from last year's 784,000 metric tons to 5 million tons by 1978, and to 15 million by 1985. If those hugely ambitious...
...most extravagant economic project is a $5 billion plan for quadrupling the capacity of the state-owned steel plant at Ciudad Guayana, thereby doubling employment from 8,000 to 15,000 over the next four years. As part of the project, Perez has announced that the iron-mining operations of U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel will be nationalized by 1975 rather than in 2000 as originally agreed. It is presumed that the American companies will be fairly compensated with money from oil revenues. Oil leases and equipment held by foreign investors-principally Exxon, Shell and Gulf-will also be nationalized...