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Article: LIFESTYLES ARE CHANGING FOR MEXICO'S POOREST ONE-TIME FARMERS HOPE GARMENT INDUSTRY CURES AREA'S FINANCIAL WOES.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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Byline: Dudley Althaus Houston Chronicle
LA FLORIDA, Mexico -- With approaching evening rains softening the desert heat, Gonzalo Nieto gazes across the railroad tracks cutting through this whistle-stop farm town and ventures a wish for better days.
``There is so much unemployment here, so many people with nothing to do,'' says Nieto, who owns a small dry-goods store in La Florida, a dusty community of about 1,600 mostly idled souls near the quickly industrializing city of Torreon.
``But with the new factory, things should get better,'' he says. ``Things have to get better.''
The well of Nieto's optimism lies behind the battered gates of ...