Word: michoacan
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...Sierra while he was an immigrant in Chicago. He had scored a recent hit with Pero Te Vas a Repentir, or "But You Will Have Regrets," a love song so catchy that half the country was humming it. Gomez was abducted after a concert in his native Michoacan state, beaten and burned and then strangled with a plastic cord...
...hurt [their drug-trafficking] business," says Steven Robertson, a special agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). And second, Mexican President Felipe Calderon's popular but oft-questioned strategy of throwing the military at the cartels - some 25,000 soldiers have been deployed to violence-ravaged states like Michoacan this year - "is starting to pay dividends," insists a high-ranking Mexican official...
...could see myself in some sawmill," says Mario Navarrete, 18, whose two older brothers labor as sheet metal and chemical workers, respectively. Two decades after immigrating from the Mexico City suburb of Michoacan, Javier Navarrete is still stretching his logging company wages to provide for his wife and the four children, including Mario, who remain at home. College, he told his progeny, was too much of a stretch. "Sorry, but there's no money," Mario remembers his father saying. He also remembers his father's amazement when told that, yes, there was money. "He didn't cry. I wanted...
...states with the highest migration rates, not one has made economic development a priority. Rather than more Mexicans going to work, more are quitting their jobs because they can live off the remittances. In five Mexican states, remittances now equal more than 100% of local salaries. In one state, Michoacan, it's 182%. Mexican academics are calling their country's relationship to the U.S. "parasitic"-they insist it is not making Mexico stronger, just making Mexico more dependent...
...least five Mexican drug rings are under investigation, some of them related to the Michoacan-based Magana family. In June 2001, nine members of the Magana clan pleaded guilty in federal court to narcotics charges and were given prison sentences ranging from four to 12 years. The Maganas have been tied to 20 large gardens with more than 100,000 plants in the Sequoia, Sierra, Stanislaus and Mendocino national forests. They also supplied workers for pot farms on federal land in Arkansas, Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington. According to investigators, the Maganas and other groups have used profits from methamphetamine...