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Cynics See Political Motivation for Mexico's Move on Pollution : Environment: The issue threatens a free trade pact with the United States. Opposition parties have it in their platforms. And the skies still aren't clear.

April 15, 1991 | JUANITA DARLING, TIMES STAFF WRITER

As this huge city comes to the end of a winter notable for toxic air pollution levels, the government is taking drastic action--closing a notorious oil refinery and 36 factories, requiring taxi drivers to buy new cars with antipollution equipment and putting up more than $1 billion in financing to help them do it. The measures were greeted initially with praise and only a few mumblings that they were long overdue. But as residents wait in vain for the sky to clear, reactions are growing cynical.

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Cynics See Political Motivation for Mexico's Move on Pollution : Environment: The issue threatens a free trade pact with the United States. Opposition parties have it in their platforms. And the skies still aren't clear.

April 15, 1991 | JUANITA DARLING, TIMES STAFF WRITER

As this huge city comes to the end of a winter notable for toxic air pollution levels, the government is taking drastic action--closing a notorious oil refinery and 36 factories, requiring taxi drivers to buy new cars with antipollution equipment and putting up more than $1 billion in financing to help them do it. The measures were greeted initially with praise and only a few mumblings that they were long overdue. But as residents wait in vain for the sky to clear, reactions are growing cynical.

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