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...your padre's maquiladoras: some look like Italianate palaces (Johnson & Johnson) or works of modern art (Thomson electronics). Some have in-house banks, cafeterias, spic-and-span bathrooms and, increasingly, on-site training in new technologies unfamiliar to illiterate peasants from Oaxaca. Jaime Garcia, 31, an engineer from Torreon, heads an all-Mexican team of 16 young designers at Delphi Automotive Systems' Technical Center, working on steering-column prototypes for U.S. cars due out in 2004. From his wide-windowed floor, Garcia has a panoramic view of both cities. He admits that the border isn't Silicon Valley...
...drug trafficking may finally be paying off. Last week the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Mexican Federal Judicial Police confirmed the arrest of the drug lord and his son Jaime Herrera Herrera. After DEA agents helped locate the Herreras last month, federales raided their houses in Guadalajara and Torreon. Said Antonio Gonzalez of the Mexican embassy in Washington: "These arrests show that our effort is going firmly and showing results...
...quintet also gave two concerts in the agricultural town of Torreon, one of which was televised. At the end of the tour they spent several more days in Monterrey where they played for their largest audience of the tour. About 2,500 persons heard the quintet play in shirt-sleeves in a park...
PAUL E. REED Torreon, Mexico...
...headquarters in Houston's 16-story Cotton Exchange Building is a complete lesson in world cotton geography. In North America the name Anderson, Clayton & Co. can be found in Montreal, Boston, New Bedford, Providence, Charlotte, Greenville, Gastonia, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Torreon. In South America the firm has affiliates in Buenos Aires, Lima, Asuncion, Sao Paulo and Recife. Its Far Eastern offices are in Bombay, Shanghai and Osaka. Its Egyptian branch is in Alexandria, its French branch in Le Havre. In Milan it does business as Lamar Fleming & Co., in Liverpool...