It S Hard To Watch
The Mennonite connection isn’t as mysterious as it may appear. By the late 1980s the Mennonites’ desert community of Cuauhtemoc, 200 miles south of El Paso, had grown to 50,000 people. In any group that size-even members of a pious, plain-living Protestant sect–some people are bound to stray. President Carlos Salinas de Gortari’s economic reforms promised an economic boom, and some Mexican Mennonites developed a yearning for video players, pickup trucks and fancy houses....