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Multiple Betrayals. Fuentes vivisects this dying body of corruption to excite disgust and detestation in the reader. The reveries of Cruz take in a cruel, gaudy life that spans the Revolution. He remembers himself as a barefoot boy in Veracruz blasting the face off a frock-coated oppressor with a shotgun; as a fugitive in Sonora; as a liberator on horseback defeating the federal artillery. He takes a hacienda for the people and the haciendado's daughter for himself. He becomes a general, begins to enrich himself. The betrayals are multiple, and by the time Fuentes lets...
These discriminatory charges are one reason why U.S. exporters are also being nudged out of "third markets" by Europeans and Japanese who benefit from lower rates. Though Veracruz is nearly three times as far from Germany as it is from New York, a German exporter can ship plasticizers to that port for $43 a ton, v. $53.61 for an exporter from New York. The difference in charges is particularly damaging to U.S. exports of cheap, bulky products for which freight makes up much of the final price...
...profit of $9,270,000. The last installment has 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...
...Latin America, as well as in the U.S. and Britain. But of all of these, none has been more ambitious than the project that President Adolfo López Mateos himself will dedicate next month-the large Alcoa complex two miles from the sea in the port of Veracruz...
...biggest deal yet made within the nine-nation Latin American Free Trade Area, Pagliai, 60, loaded the first part of a $7,000,000 order of steel pipe for the Argentine PASA petrochemical complex. Next month he will open Latin America's biggest aluminum plant at Veracruz. A major force in Mexico's finance, Pagliai is busily negotiating 15 new international ventures...