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...their Mexican allies as sloppy and uncouth nacos, or hicks--a gang, U.S. agents say, that had to bury a DC-7 in the Baja desert six years ago because it had failed to tell the Colombian pilots, who were delivering 20 tons of cocaine, that landing in the sand would wreck the jet engines...
Juarez, once a dusty border mountain pass, is now Mexico's fourth largest city, with a population of 1.3 million and 50,000 more arriving each year. Huge clusters of tiny workers' houses rise out of the sand and stretch in every direction. "It's instant urbanization," says Nestor Valencia, who directed El Paso's city planning for 11 years. "One year it's a desert. The next it's a city...
...without paved roads, water or sewer service. The homes look like preschool art projects, glued and stapled together from cardboard and plywood and tin. Bootleg power lines drop from overhead wires, loop down to the ground and are held in place by a rock, then snake through the sand to a house. Some wires are live, and arc and spit when it rains. The young women who live here are favored by the maquila bosses for their nimble fingers and obedience. But more than 200 women, many of them maquila workers, have been murdered since 1993--often raped, strangled...
...large family that has given years of sweat to the maquiladoras, Valles is one of more than 100,000 Juarez residents who have no running water. She's confident the U.S. will help pony up the funds to turn on her faucets. Watching over a front "lawn" of sand and brush as a caged parrot on her porch creates an illusion of oasis, she insists, "We're all here because the Americans wanted us here...
...over the Senate this week and John McCain keeping the White House in a state of perpetual anxiety about his intentions, George W. Bush is discovering his presidential limits. He's learning that the most powerful man in the world (even more shocking, the most powerful Republican) can have sand kicked in his face by a no-name erstwhile ally named Jeffords and a renegade former rival. And then be forced to say he likes...