News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Blankets prove key in Tijuana winter

Most don't have heaters because of costs, access

By Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

January 20, 2007

TIJUANA – Winter here can get down-right frigid, even if you aren't among the impoverished residents who live in wooden shacks with little protection against the chill.

Until recently, heating hadn't been installed in many Mexican homes occupied by middle-class and even wealthier residents. People simply made do with extra blankets, hot tea and portable heaters.

That cold reality has been a boon to blanket manufacturers in Mexico, who created toasty coverings of polyester and acrylic with popular depictions of deer, lions and unicorns.

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