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...civilization. Democracy was saved, and with it, all the freedoms that we currently take for granted. That's what made it a good war, and those who were chosen to give their lives so that we could enjoy ours, whether Jews or gentiles, were the unfortunate generation. TOM MOULSON Corona del Mar, Calif...
...last time Fanny Sobero saw her husband Guillermo, it was late afternoon on May 23 at their suburban home in the chaparral-covered hills of Corona, California. Kids were shooting hoops in the fading light, and Sobero, in khaki shorts and a T shirt, was out in the driveway, slinging a yellow backpack into his Toyota pickup. Fanny thought her husband was heading up to Lake Havasu in Arizona to do some fishing and celebrate his 40th birthday, but she wasn't sure. She and Sobero didn't speak to each other much, unless it was about their impending divorce...
...editor of the Tijuana weekly Zeta. Because of his reporting on the cartel--which included publishing letters from mothers of Ramon's victims calling Ramon a coward--Blancornelas was shot four times in broad daylight in 1997 by a group that included Ramon's main hitman, David Barron Corona (a San Diego gang member who was himself killed by a stray bullet between the eyes during the botched assault). "If the will is there, and I think it is," says Blancornelas, "it could happen soon...
...come over, the drunks and Friday-night revelers who have been enjoying the Nuevo Laredo night life, some even venturing to Boystown, the red-light district, where prostitutes have held court for generations of Texas fraternity boys, roughnecks and cowboys. The revelers will buy tequila and six-packs of Corona at half the U.S. price on the Mexican side and bring it back across...
...Mexico has grown 20%. The village of Tanque de Guadalupe is typical. Virtually every male age 17 and older is gone, and the town's population--now 120--has been cut in half. "There is no sign that it is going to slow down," says veteran demographer Rodolfo Corona of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, the country's main border-issues research center. Zacatecans in the U.S. are so widespread--and so successful--that many band together to form clubs to pool their earnings and send cash back home to build roads, clinics and schools. Some of these clubs...