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Some Mexicans hate the North American Free Trade Agreement even more than Ross Perot does. One night last January, a mob protesting competition from across the border broke into an American dairy's warehouse in Chihuahua and dumped 5,500 gallons of milk. Six months later in Ciudad Juarez, several men slipped into a storage area owned by the same Texas dairy and set fire to four big trucks...
...cooperation with the U.S.-owned QVC, broadcasts a home- shopping channel produced in Tijuana. People who never before had a car or a credit card now have both. The working-class suburb of Iztapalapa boasts a McDonald's and a Wal-Mart superstore, while the Mexico City slum Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl houses enough VCRS to support a branch of Blockbuster Video...
...able to fashion an art of the most radical poetry. And the best buildings constructed anywhere in Spain between 1860 and the outbreak of World War I were all in Catalunya, and mostly in Barcelona. The combined talents of its turn-of-the-century architects made it La Ciudad de los Prodigios, or the City of Marvels, as the Catalan writer Eduardo Mendoza titled his savagely ironic, picaresque novel of fin-de-siecle Barcelona...
Down the road, in the new-rich suburb of Ciudad Jardin, is the modern compound of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela. Nicknamed the "Chess Player" because he runs his business -- and life -- with cold calculation, he parlayed youthful jobs as a drugstore clerk by day and a kidnapper by night into a vast network of enterprises, including a pharmacy chain, office and apartment buildings, banks, car dealerships, radio stations and Cali's talented America soccer team. His handsome younger brother Miguel is a fixture on the local social scene, and their children, educated in the U.S. or Europe, are often compared...
...blow struck against Mexico's most powerful drug lord was the latest in a series of headline-grabbing actions initiated by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari since he took office late last year. In January, after a sensational shoot-out in Ciudad Madero, police arrested Joaquin Hernandez Galicia, known as "La Quina," the powerful and widely feared leader of Mexico's oil workers' union. A month later Eduardo Legorreta Chauvert, a top businessman with ties to the Salinas government, was jailed on charges of stock fraud. What La Quina, Legorreta and Felix Gallardo have in common is that they...