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...drug war and its piles of headless corpses. The global economic crisis may have done just as good a job of keeping potential visitors at home. In any case, while tourism was hit in the first months of 2009, it was not devastated; for example, the Riviera Nayarit on the Pacific coast reported hotel occupancy of 83% in February, compared with 90% in the same month...
...have given a few people the jitters, the swine flu sent many more running for their lives. As news of Mexicans sputtering to death on hospital beds shot round the world, tourists fled resorts in packed planes while many more upcoming holidays were canceled. At the Riviera Nayarit, hotel occupancy in May plummeted to 33%, compared with 70% in the same month of 2008. In some other resorts, it was down to single figures. And most of the visitors who came were Mexicans, not foreigners. "It was like first getting a cough and then getting hit over the head with...
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...AGENT Manjarrez knows what it means to want to come to the U.S. His father did it on foot at the age of nine. Victor Sr. illegally crossed into Arizona after traveling 800 miles from his hometown of Te-pic, Nayarit, in west-central Mexico. He had only a second-grade education and spoke no English. "I have a 14-year-old son now," says the border patrol chief, "and I cannot imagine him doing the same thing. [My father] didn't have a childhood, but when I ask him why he did it, he says, 'I didn't have...
...father crossed 50 years ago and began a life that matches that of many people his son is trying to apprehend today. Victor Sr. made his way to Tucson, Ariz., worked as a dishwasher and a meat cutter and every month sent money back to his family in Nayarit. They teased him about how proud he was to be an American and nicknamed him Eisenhower. He raised his two children in the U.S. and sent his eldest--Victor Jr.--to college, then saw him join the U.S. border patrol. Its ranks are filled with agents who have similar family histories...