That, I predict, would be a real exito, which is Spanish for big hit. Q. Your paper has placed a special emphasis on enterprise and investigative projects. This is South Texas. Dead people still vote on occasion. Influence peddlers openly do business at city hall and on school boards.
Education reform is a huge issue due to unsatisfactory test scores.
A Mexican investment firm based here is charged with one of the largest criminal frauds in Texas history. Drugs and money laundering are a fact of life. There is increasing militarization along the border to fend off waves of illegal immigrants, yet the border cities seem to have received few of the many benefits promised by the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, even though the region is booming. There is plenty for us to do down here. May. We ve had a border bureau for some years, and are adding three other bureaus right now along the border and in South Texas to extend our coverage, which we think is now the most extensive in the state.