Home reading - Veracruz
produce petrochemicals for photographic film,antifreeze, nylon stockings, nd fertilizers.
Sharing the Gulf with Pemex oil tankers in Veracruz's fishing fleet, the largest in
Mexico.Each day before sunrise some 11,600 boats pull out to harvest shrimp,clams, oysters,
crabs, and fish- enough to supply 12 percent of the country's commercial seafood needs.
The grit and grime of the oil industry and the frantic sorting of fish this is what many
outsiders think of as the essence of Veracruc Yet there is an other a calmer, quieter Vera cruz
down any country road.In the fishing village of Mandinga, for example a cool Gulf breeze
softens the humid afternoon heat as the town's residents mestizos partly descenced from
African slaves go about their business along dusty streets that Alfonso."so they come
back.At least here they alwayshave a job"
And hey have their music.Of all Veracruz's cosmpolitian influences food laced with Italian
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