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Tensions were not hard to find. "I covered Mexico from 1989 through 1998," says Tim Padgett, our Miami bureau chief, "but it wasn't until I revisited El Paso and Juarez for this story that I realized how strong residents' resentment toward Washington and Mexico City has become--how much, in the words of Juarez mayor Gustavo Elizondo, they've begun to feel like a neglected 'third country.' The warning from leaders like Elizondo is that if the border buckles under the increasing demands of NAFTA, then NAFTA too will suffer." Elizondo punctuated that point during the interview by throwing...
...Arellanos have a weakness, it may be their failure to see that even the border's notorious criminal culture eventually has its limits. It's true that since the Wild West days, when Billy the Kid wintered in El Paso and Juarez, border natives have often been a law unto themselves--a product of their historic, and justified, resentment of racist gringos to the north and haughty chilangos (Mexico City residents) to the south, who sneered at the border for being neither American nor Mexican enough. "That identity crisis and alienation grew into the violent face of the border," says...
Juarez is the migration story that most Americans don't hear about: the one that stops just short of the border and grows and grows. The Juarez-El Paso population of 2 million makes up the largest border community anywhere in the world, expanding more than 5% a year. It is a big, wild experiment in what happens when two halves of a metropolis are governed by very different economic, civic and cultural rules. This is a place where two cities breathe the same air, drink the same water and share the same destiny along what U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes...
...Paso and Juarez offer a test to all the high-minded globalists who think that if you fix the economy, the other solutions will fall into line. On the one hand, manufacturers from Ireland to Japan are streaming into town. Some 400 maquiladoras, or assembly plants, have all but eliminated unemployment in Juarez and have sown the seeds of a stable middle class, "not Mexicans with sombreros," says Miguel Angel Giron, 26, an accountant at an auto-parts factory. But all the problems that booming trade creates are concentrated here as well; the potable water in the cities' common aquifer...
Soon everyone in the family was talking, but not to one another. Rumors flew. "I told Park, 'It's over; I want out,'" says Henschel. At this point, they called in Bright. She interviewed each person before gathering them for a three-day smackdown at an El Paso hotel. There was yelling about devious motives; there were tears. There was plenty of salsa...