[AGL] yet another twist

[Harry Edwards]

This one also disappeared after I posted it last night. Looks like  
Dubyah might be exporting democracy where he least expected it.          
    td


For those of you still focusing on the "corruption" in Mexico. The link  
for this full story is:

<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/remit/la-fg- 
straddle16apr16,0,659183.story>

 From the Los Angeles Times
Migrants Reshape Villages With Ideas del Norte
By Sam Enriquez
Times Staff Writer

April 16, 2006

Workers in the United States helped pay for the grand boulevard leading  
into town, a four-lane thoroughfare whose center divider is planted  
with palm trees and roses. A large sign declares in Spanish: Migrants,  
this is your home.

They are making it more so every day. Work crews pour concrete on Calle  
Manzano, transforming a washboard into a paved street. Carpenters and  
masons put the finishing touches on a new sanctuary at St. Sebastian  
church. Clean water and electricity reach farther into outlying  
neighborhoods of this town in Zacatecas state.

Nearly every public works project here, as in dozens of towns  
throughout Mexico, is subsidized and overseen by Mexicans working in  
the United States.

Unlike past generations who melted into the American mainstream, a new  
breed of migrant is determined to straddle the border. They are on a  
mission to reshape their old country with ideas from their new one.  
Along with cash, they are bringing notions of open government and  
accountability.