The Mexican government offered these people to settle in a promising city like Monterrey, then having one of the most impressive rates of economic growth in the country.
Those new arrivals from San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas and other states from Central and Southern Mexico faced both ethnic and class segregation by the people of Monterrey at first, but eventually were accepted as part of the rest of the society.
In 2009, Tracy Wilkinson, of the Los Angeles Times, recalled seeing many dogs and donkeys in the street.
Within two years leading up to 2009, major drug cartels (especially the Zetas), began to make inroads into Independencia and pinned the residents against the government.
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