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...when thousands of Hispanics came to Iowa communities like Marshalltown to work in meat-packing plants. Marshalltown (pop. 26,000) became 12% Hispanic overnight. The monocultural town was totally unprepared. Schools struggled to cope with non-English speakers. A methamphetamine industry sprang up, which police blamed on Mexican gangs. Most of the new arrivals, like Gilberto Ortega, 36, from El Salvador, toiled long hours at jobs nobody else wanted. Ortega, a meatcutter, supported his wife and two children on $9 an hour. He says he has been too busy to learn English...
...Muscatine center, says Iowa has come a long way since she moved to the Mississippi river town in 1977. "Everywhere I went, people stared," she says. "It was so bad, I didn't want to go out." Today the town of 23,000 is 12% Hispanic. On Mulberry Avenue, Mexican groceries compete for customers, and the El Cabrito restaurant dishes up taquitos. It's a glimpse of Vilsack's vision for a multicultural Iowa. He just has to win over all his citizens...
...Mexican political figure and you've nearly filled Mexico City's mammoth central plaza, you've done a good day's work. The mostly young crowd that gathered on the Zocalo to greet Subcomandante Marcos and his fellow Zapatista Army commanders on Sunday took up a good 85 percent of the plaza. Crowd estimates were wildly inconsistent, but the order of magnitude is tens of thousands of people...
...Virtually no one in Mexico disputes Marcos's claim that the Indians of Chiapas have endured centuries of oppression. At the same time, as such eminent Mexican intellectuals as historian Enrique Krauze has been pointing out, Chiapas doesn't represent all of Mexico. And then there's the question of Marcos's mandate: It isn't only political conservatives who note that, unlike Fox, the masked guerrilla leader with the poetic touch has never actually stood for election. "Fox has legitimacy," said a friend of mine from the Mexican left, as she surveyed the crowd in the Zocalo. But Marcos...
...Asian financial crisis and the Mexican bailout were both high-stakes political controversies that played out during Summers' time as a top policymaker. But Kamarck said none of these controversies hurt him personally. "He took a lot of grief, but no personal hits," she said. "When someone can come through something like the Mexican bailout without permanent scars, it's testament to their ability...