Word: reynosa
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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...
...been paid on the $167 million indemnification to the former owners. And now Pemex is rapidly expanding into the profitable new fields of fertilizers, plastics and synthetic rubber-all from petrochemical byproducts of oil processing. From the jungles south of Veracruz to the arid, sun-baked flats of Reynosa just across the U.S. border, 18 petrochemical plants have gone up since 1959, and another 22 are abuilding. By 1966, says one Pemex official, petrochemicals will be the country's second biggest industry-surpassed only by oil itself...
MEXICAN NATURAL GAS will soon be supplied to U.S. markets in quantity for the first time. Pemex (Mexico's national oil and gas company) has signed a deal with Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. to export between 100 million and 200 million cu. ft. of methane gas daily from Reynosa, Mexico through pipelines to Eastern U.S. consumers...
...last week Ramón Mirabal Carrión, secretary-general of the Communist Party in Puerto Rico, stepped onto the Mexican approach of the international bridge connecting Reynosa, Mexico and Hidalgo, Texas. The moment he walked across the U.S. boundary, Mirabal was arrested for violation of the Smith Act. He had been hiding in Mexico since June, and yet, somehow, the FBI evidently knew exactly when to expect...