Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

摘要

For much of their shared 2,000-mile border, little distinguishes Mexico from the United States. Desert meets desert, and one dusty small town rubs up against another. Even in the cities, where American towers, cars and neon abut on shabby Mexican sprawl, business buildings—in this post-NAFTA age of increasingly interlinked economies—now look much the same on either side. Yet the balance of power, and the flow of people, remain unrelentingly and inevitably tilted to the huge, rich north.