Word: monterrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Millions of Mexicans from rural areas have fled the countryside to find work in the burgeoning industrial areas along the Texas border as well as in Guadalajara, Monterrey and Mexico City. Some 64% of the population now dwell in cities and towns. For a fortunate few, like Salvador Reyes Garcia, 28, the trip to the city has been worth it. Nine years ago, Reyes left a remote village in the Chihuahua desert for Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. There he landed a job as a sewing machine operator in a clothing factory at the minimum
...social pyramid by a new elite of rich cosmopolitan entrepreneurs and a growing middle class. Mexico City's Bernardo Quintana, for example, built the capital's famous subway system and now handles construction projects all over Latin America. Another highly successful family is that of Garza Sadas of Monterrey, whose investments in tourism and Grupo Industrial Alfa, an industrial conglomerate, are estimated to be worth $1 billion...
...higher than the $2.16 being charged by Canadian suppliers. López Portillo vowed to burn off the gas and leave the oil in the ground rather than sell it to the U.S. The pipeline was rerouted to the industrial city of Monterrey, and as a further gesture of defiance, the Mexicans decided to inaugurate the "gasduct" on March 18, the 41st anniversary of Mexico's nationalization of its oil fields...
...uttered a fervent plea for economic justice and redistribution of land. Attacking "the powerful- rich classes who often leave untilled the lands in which lay hidden the bread that many families need,"John Paul cried: "It is not just, it is not human, it is not Chris tian." At Monterrey, he defended laborers' right to organize and protect their economic interests. In an obvious wetbacks who head for the U.S., he stated, "We cannot close our eyes to the plight of millions of men who abandon their homelands, and often their families, in search of work with no social...
...frisbees went back into the minds of the Dunsterites, the urge to don the string bikini was just too great to stay repressed and it bubbled back to the surface, and so two weeks later Hawaiian Night was born. This time around it was Mauai and Mauna Kea over Monterrey, and pineapple juice instead of orange drink. And the sweet strains of "Hawaiian Love Song" drowned out the bleating screams of "Help Me, Rhonda...