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...rained at all this year, and in 1962 only six inches of rain fell, the lowest record in memory. "In La Laguna," goes the expression, "it doesn't rain water, it rains dust." Last month, 30 blue-painted trucks with the federal government's CONASUPO relief agency emblem arrived to start distributing food. CONASUPO used to operate only in Mexico City. But now, says La Laguna operations director Gilberto Martinez, "there's more suffering here than in Mexico City. There are cases of children getting no meals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Looking for Water | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

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