Word: guadalajara
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Mexico, though, enjoyed at least one bit of good economic news last week. IBM announced that it would build a microcomputer plant near Guadalajara. The facility will be wholly owned by the American company, marking the first time Mexico has permitted a foreign high-tech firm to have 100% control of a local subsidiary. A 1973 law limits foreign ownership to 49%. In January, Mexico rejected IBM's proposal to build the plant, but the company made several concessions to get the deal. It agreed to invest $91 million over five years, instead of the $6.6 million initially planned...
Companies trying to reach America's expanding Hispanic population should listen to Julieta Parilla and her family. Parilla, who emigrated from Guadalajara, Mexico, with her relatives eight years ago, is preaching about Pampers. Sitting on a four-poster living-room bed in the cramped apartment she shares with her baby daughter, mother, sister, brother-in-law and five nieces and nephews in Norwalk, Calif., a predominantly Hispanic working-class suburb of Los Angeles, she waxes eloquent about the diaper brand's absorption abilities and its "softer cloth." At a baby shower before her 6-month-old daughter Fatima was born...
...tortured by love (El Crimen del Padre Amaro), a randy teenager on a spree (Y Tu Mamá También). In The Motorcycle Diaries, which just opened, he incarnates the young Ernesto Guevara, soon to be Che. Bad Education follows in November, and after that, who knows? The kid from Guadalajara, Mexico, is high on Hollywood's muy caliente list, though he has yet to make a film there. But the future is limitless for an actor who can do anything...
Santa Fe, N.M., has its share of hangouts for the megarich. The Guadalajara Grill, a strip-mall cafe decorated with balloons in the shape of beer bottles, isn't one of them. But places like that are part of the territory if your husband is running for President. That is how Teresa Heinz Kerry, conservatively estimated to be worth $500 million or so, happened to find herself there last Friday afternoon, inhaling the heavy aroma of frying tortillas and trying to persuade a mixed group of 30 Democrats, including some undecideds and former Deanites, to vote for her husband. Nearly...
...national forests. They also supplied workers for pot farms on federal land in Arkansas, Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington. According to investigators, the Maganas and other groups have used profits from methamphetamine operations to expand into marijuana. They own gas stations, haciendas and million-dollar resorts in Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Michoacan and other parts of Mexico. "They have tremendous networks involving legal businesses, money laundering and distribution," says Jerry Moore, the Forest Service's regional law-enforcement chief. "We arrest people, but new players move...