Word: paso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Complains Store Manager Gaston Lopez: "We used to be busy all day. The four registers never stopped ringing. But I've had to lay off two cashiers, and the other two are working 40-hour weeks instead of 50." Says Wilfred Madrid, a department store owner in El Paso: "My business is off 80%. It's dead out there in the streets, and it's like a morgue here in the store." Last week the U.S. Small Business Administration set up a $200 million loan program for merchants devastated by the falling peso...
Mexico's economic crisis is not just a matter of concern for big-city bankers. It has also hit Maria Luisa de Lopez, the mother of seven children, who has illegally crossed the Rio Grande in search of a day's work as a maid in El Paso. Said she: "Potatoes, beans and chili peppers-that's all we can afford to eat. There's no meat, eggs or milk for us. I'm giving my children only one meal...
...soon found out, wasn't the only convert. Arnie flew out to Denver every week or so to look for oil and stayed in a condominium he and his business partner had bought there, and David drove to EI Paso every Monday to work in a Boy Scout camp. To get to the movies they drove at least three miles, and even though the Safeway supermarket was about a quarter mile from their home, they never walked. Liz thought nothing of flying to Shreveport, La., to visit friends from her temple youth group...
...fact, a week after I got there, Arnie was in Denver for the day, Dave was in El Paso, Dan was at work in a pet shop, and Liz needed a lift to the airport. Since my father is somewhat paranoid about teenagers on freeways, I had never driven on one before that week. I went over the directions six times with Liz after explaining to anyone who would listen how nervous...
...shopping centers, a housing tract is under construction. The construction foreman, asked for directions to the guerrilla camp, shrugs and points across the road. Sunday is the day that Gonzalez sets aside for press visits, and lately reporters and camera crews have come in droves past the No Paso (No Trespassing) sign posted outside the 18-month-old Camp Cuba-Nicaragua. The show varies little from week to week: target practice, men running an obstacle course, simulated assaults through mud and underbrush. No automatic weapons or explosives are used; they are illegal. Finally, Bombillo Gonzalez climbs atop a tiny wooden...