Word: reynosa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trade relationship that heavily favors the U.S. In fact, he preceded his visit with a generous Mexican offer to the U.S. PEMEX, the national oil company, has begun shipping 2.4 billion cu. ft. of natural gas to the fuel-starved U.S. through pipeline connections at Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros; the gas will have a price tag of more than $5 million. And with Florida's vegetable crops devastated by the winter weather, Mexico is shipping tomatoes in quantity to the U.S. from vast agribusiness farms below the border
...distributes these goods to the Mexican migrant workers who live in brutalizing squalor on both sides of the Rio Grande. But that only begins his chores. After persistent dunning, drug companies have shipped tons of vitamins and medicines to Harlingen, and Ferree dispenses them in the Mexican towns of Reynosa and Matamoros, where he has established makeshift clinics in abandoned shacks. He ministers to minor ailments himself; with the help of admiring merchants on both sides of the border, he has arranged more than 200 harelip and cleft-palate operations for children he has found. One of his discoveries...
Enrique Garcia, 35, a farm laborer in Reynosa, Mexico, had reason for anxiety when his wife Lorenza went into labor one blustery night nine months ago. The couple's first child had been stillborn, and both badly wanted a baby. But Garcia's nervousness turned to horror when he saw the boy that was to bear his name. Attached to the lower abdomen of the otherwise healthy, pretty infant was a football-shaped protuberance that carried a partially developed extra pair of legs...
...such entrepreneurial witch, Madame Azteca, lives just across the border in the Mexican town of Reynosa. In one room of her shack, she works her magic sitting before two enormous, bubbling cauldrons, with mysterious colored powders arrayed on shelves behind. On the floor is a brilliant $500 red carpet-a payment from the Yturria family, whose only son Tony faced the gringo's draft two years ago. The witch tried her spells and powders on Tony's behalf, but he was inducted anyway. "The spirits just wouldn't cooperate," said Madame Azteca...