In LaPaz, Skaliks likes the micro-financing story in Mexico and one way he plays that is through the bonds of Financiera Independencia.

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However, a closer look would reveal one of the biggest urban slums in all of Mexico, La Independencia, the oldest and poorest neighborhood in Monterrey.

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In Monterrey's Independencia neighborhood, one of the city's oldest, it is not the city government that controls the streets but the local pandillas, or gangs.

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