Mexico’s emigrants in America are ageing
That is a challenge for the places they left behind
TWO KINDS OF EMPTY homes bespeckle the hills and valleys of central Mexico and they could not be more different. The first are the crumbling grey cinder-block houses of people who left long ago and never returned. Then there are the dazzling two-storey mansions built with the dollars of migrants working in the United States, which briefly fill with light and laughter each year when their owners come to visit.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Youth departs”
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