It's not quite Silicon Valley, but it's as close as you'll get in Mexico. Over the past 25 years, dozens of tech- nology companies, including IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co., have flocked to Guadalajara, in the central state of Jalisco. They were joined in the 1990s by huge contract manufacturers, such as Flextronics and SCI Systems. Those companies built factories to churn out everything from cellular phones to Palm Pilots, plus all manner of electronics components. The city's attractions: its proximity to the U. S. and its abundance of cheap labor.
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