Who
built and build Acapulco Cancun Cabo San Lucas Mazatlan
Puerto
Vallarta Cuernavaca tourist hotels the Hyatt the Hilton the
Westin
the Lucerna the Continental Plaza the Fiesta Americana
World Trade
Centers conference halls for businessmen and academics
shopping
malls Plaza Mexicana Plaza del Sol Plaza Cachanilla
La Zona rosa
hippodromes country clubs restaurants adorned with
Riviera murals
and hanging plants in multi-colored ceramic pots
places they
cannot enter and enjoy for lack of funds
lunch for one at the
Rosarito Beach Hotel once a favorite haunt
of Hollywood stars
costs one day's minimum wage no drink included
two beers at the
Westin and the day's pay is gone
they build them then return
to
their colonias perdidas their scrapwood dirt floored shacks
since
40 years or more ago until today
Who
recycle metals cardboard newspapers collected in the local
dumps
to national multinational companies
who gather dented cans of food
thrown out from newly established
supermarket chains tomatoes
oranges rotten on only one side
collected in the local dumps
fishheads for fishhead soup thrown out by
the fish shop after
filleting clothing discarded by those so better off
they have no
one to hand the garments down to collected in the local
dumps a
fork spoon mattress broken chair anything of human
use found in
the local dumps up to now
Who
rise early to make tacos burritos fruitades to sell to
factory
laborers maquiladora workers who made it through primary
school
at least
Who
sometimes cross to U.S. cities to work in Taco Bell in Beverly
Hills
gardens in L.A. N.Y. Miami garment factories Milwaukee
Chicago Pittsburg Detroit
foundries
in construction cleanup carwashes
gas stations as janitors busboys
waiters gardeners maids
in old folks' homes in rich folks'
homes
in the countryside to plant cultivate weed prune harvest
lettuce
apples broccoli oranges peaches tomatoes grapes
melons
cabbage onions still
Whose
children will secure lots in newer squatter settlements
self-build
housing pay one third of infrastructural costs in
installments for
electricity running water sewage
buy bricks from the brickmakers
still living on lonely isolated
unserviced brickyards their
children still the family's labor force
like that of the peasants
from which they sprang their children their
only welfare system
Whose
growth as those of parents grandparents is still stunted due
to
lack of food though not as much as previously the population
is
growing taller and more can read
Who
will couple with daughters of fathers like their own see a movie
or
two Predator Rocky III Robocop Superman Batman
Pretty Woman Deep
Throat Fantasia Total Recall
dubbed in Espa à � ol
give them circuses if not bread
and the girls tint their hair
yellow to look more like some Hollywood star
and spent their
maquiladora savings on mini-skirts lipstick Clairol
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