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...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...
...most responsible for NAFTA Man's ascendance in McAllen is a former Catholic priest turned economic hustler named, coincidentally, Mike Allen. As president of the local economic-development office, the 63-year-old executive uses local tax funds to attract business to McAllen--as well as to its Mexican sister city, Reynosa, across the vein-thin river. "I remember back in '88 meeting the mayor of Reynosa. He had an AK-47 in his back seat. We did a handshake deal to bring manufacturers to Mexico," says Allen. Back then, Reynosa had fewer than 20 factories, with 16,000 employees...
Critics point out that the Mexican maquilas have drained jobs from the U.S. side. Allen says those jobs were leaving anyway. And even though the Rio Grande Valley remains one of the nation's poorest regions, a lucrative new companion industry--logistics and technical support--has helped boost job growth 7% last year in the McAllen area, the best in Texas. The 2,000 mostly American maquila professionals who cross the bridge daily into Reynosa bring in $1 million a year in tolls alone for the city of McAllen. "If Reynosa is not doing well," says city manager Mike Perez...
What Mogt makes of it is called nortec, a new breed of music that mixes traditional Mexican norteno and tambora riffs on the accordion, tuba and drums with electronica. In the two years since nortec was born, it has become the dominant sound of Tijuana's cool set. But in the same way that rock 'n' roll is more than just the sum of a few chords, nortec has expanded well beyond some creative samples and a break beat. Graphic artists, fashion designers and filmmakers have been inspired to shrug off Tijuana's reputation as a cultural void and address...
Like Tijuana, Pepe Mogt's musical taste is an accident of geography. Local Tijuana radio played the music of a few electronic bands, but the airwaves were mostly filled with norteno and tambora--Mexican variations on the polkas and waltzes that German farmers brought to central Mexico in the 19th century. With help from a hip uncle, Mogt discovered the sounds of Kraftwerk, New Order and Depeche Mode that were beaming in from San Diego's 91X. Soon he was crossing the border a few times a week to go to concerts and paw through the bins of San Diego...