Word: guadalajara
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...year, the jobless rate approaches 40%, and a man lucky enough to find work may be paid $1 a day. Small wonder that close to 10% of all Mexicans actually reside in the U.S., and Los Angeles has the third largest concentration of Mexicans (after Mexico City and Guadalajara...
...most blighted. Clouds of smoke from burning garbage, tortilla shops and public bathhouses-fortified by the rarefied oxygen at 7,347 ft.-make lung congestion almost epidemic and blot out the view of Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, the twin peaks between which Hernan Cortes advanced in 1519. Other urban areas-Guadalajara and Monterrey -are almost...
...Guadalajara, Mexico...
...Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People is only one of several groups aiming at the overthrow of the government. The most powerful organization is the 23rd of September Communist League,* which is believed to be based in Guadalajara. Last spring, it dynamited factories and monuments and held up banks and businesses all over Jalisco State, of which Guadalajara is the capital. Another group, the Armed Forces of National Liberation, has also carried out a campaign of bank heists and kidnapings, while the Spartacus Leninist League last year murdered Monterrey's industrial patriarch, Eugenic Garza Sada, 82. Yet a fourth...
bank of the Rio Grande 27 years ago, his prospects looked dim indeed. He was a 14-year-old wetback from Guadalajara who had crossed the border illegally to earn money to help support his large and fatherless family in Mexico...