Word: iztapalapa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nowhere worse than in Mexico City. Crime in the capital has risen a staggering 30% or more for each of the past three years. Just one small district, Iztapalapa, saw 154 murders in 1997. Worse, a study has found that 90% of the city's crimes go unpunished, probably because police are committing so many of them. Just days after he took office last month promising to clean up the constabulary, Mexico City's first-ever elected mayor, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano of the left-center Democratic Revolution Party, had to dump his newly appointed investigative police chief because...
...shopping malls has become a weekend institution, and Televisa, the Spanish-language entertainment conglomerate, in 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...
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