PEGUEROS, Mexico -- Even as his village emptied, Pedro Martin stayed behind. His schoolmates abandoned the scrub-covered hills of central Mexico for the land they called El Norte -- the North. They mopped floors in Fresno, poured concrete in Tempe and tended other people's children in Galveston,... -
In Mexico, 'People Do Really Want to Stay'
PEGUEROS, Mexico -- Even as his village emptied, Pedro Martin stayed behind. His schoolmates abandoned the scrub-covered hills of central Mexico for the land they called El Norte -- the North. They mopped floors in Fresno, poured concrete in Tempe and tended other people's children in Galveston,...-
By Peter S. Goodman