Word: mexicans
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...aren't many places you can go to see the First World and the Third World meet--in some cases, in the same city. You cross over from the U.S. side and see a donkey pull a garbage cart through the streets as you drive out to see the Mexican fiber-optics factories. It felt like a kind of time travel--we just skipped the 20th century as we drove across town...
Michael Duffy, our Washington bureau chief, spent a month reporting in Texas, Arizona, California and four Mexican states before editing the project. "What we discovered was a country all its own," says Michael. "We found that the border was changing Mexico just as quickly as--and maybe faster than--it was changing the U.S." Los Angeles bureau chief Terry McCarthy and photojournalist James Nachtwey spent a week with migrants, border-patrol agents and people smugglers in the desert scrub dividing Mexico and Arizona, the busiest alien-smuggling corridor along the border...
...reason, I think, is guilt. About 11 million Americans will travel abroad this summer--80% of them as tourists. And such hordes can quickly ruin the very places they love. That's why environmental groups were so quick to criticize plans recently announced by the Mexican government to develop Baja California's unspoiled eastern coast. Those who remember a charming locale before the tourists arrived understandably sigh for the past. I have just returned from a week visiting friends in Crete, where a mountain gorge that I first hiked in solitary silence in 1973 now sees 260,000 visitors...
...kind. Each year they smuggle to the U.S. hundreds of tons of cocaine, plus marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine, ferried on ships, on planes and inside truckloads of legitimate merchandise. The Arellanos are thought to have hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away, and that's after bribing Mexican officials, cops and generals to the tune of some $75 million a year...
...brought integrity and courage to the Clinton White House,” Podesta says. “During the Mexican bailout he put together an unprecedented financial maneuver. With Rubin’s encouragement and advice we put through something that had only 20 percent approval in the opinion polls...