Word: mexicali
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...River did not even exist until 1905, when the flooding Colorado River dug a new channel that arched south of Mexicali, Mexico, then back north into California. But it has made up for lost time. Says Gruenberg: "It's the most polluted water in California, and perhaps in the U.S." The Colorado connection has long since dried up, but a 75-mile river still flows, carrying its poisonous flotsam into California's bountiful Imperial Valley, past lettuce and cotton fields, and finally emptying into the Salton Sea, a popular fishing and swimming site near Palm Springs. Fishermen and residents alike...
...vice president of the Capin Mercantile Corp., one of Arizona's largest employers: "My kids are not aware of prejudices here in Nogales. We're probably more Mexicanized than the Mexicans are Americanized." Merchant Fred Knechel, president of the Chamber of Commerce in Calexico, Calif., across the line from Mexicali, contends that there are "class prejudices but not racial prejudices on the border...
...lives of many residents straddle the boundary. "Half of my family is in the U.S.," says Francisco Xavier Rivas, 36, who runs an industrial park in Mexicali. "It's interesting when we get together. Those from the U.S. speak almost no Spanish, those from Mexicali speak so-so Spanish, while those from Mexico City speak very good Spanish." Cathy Hernandez, 29, was born in Juarez but went through high school in El Paso. She is an international banking officer at the First City National Bank of El Paso. Her husband Javier, 32, works as a supervisor at a racetrack...
...City than between Mexicans and Americans. The nortenos see themselves as more industrious and democratic than the others, whom they sometimes call guachos (the kept ones), accusing them of living largely off government services. "We started using computers in our business ten years ago," boasts Eugenio Elorduy, a prosperous Mexicali businessman. "In Mexico City, the computer boom is just starting...
...wish wouldn't catch you. Deborah Harry and the band have a sound that contrives to be both congenial and clammy, like a wet suede coat. In The Tide Is High, their current hit, they sound like a bunch of loaded reggae freaks who wake up in a Mexicali beer joint. As the title implies, this record is a machine-tooled product, but if Detroit had as keen an idea of its market as Blondie, there would be no need for federal subsidies...