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Migration Information Source - The US-Mexico Border
About 11.8 million people live in the US-Mexico border area .
Mexican Rock Project
Mexican History 1947 - 2008
Miguel Aleman was the first civilian president since Carranza . Postwar Mexico was prosperous and booming .Mexico had a healthy surplus after the war and Aleman launched a number of large public works projects such as the Morelos and Falcon Dams helped increase agricultural output , irrigate vast tracts of land and tripled Mexico's electrical capacity by 1952 .The railway was modernized and the Mexican segment of the Pan-American Highway was finished in 1951 .Women were allowed to vote in 1952 .Pemex built new refineries and pipeline and doubled its production from 1946 to 1952 .Aleman used his influence to help bring the 1968 Olympics to Mexico .
