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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Brendan M. Case
Mar. 29--MEXICO CITY--When seeking a bank loan in Mexico, it helps not to need a bank loan in the first place.
"It's funny and silly at the same time," said Jeanette Gutierrez, 35, a Mexico City fashion designer who had so much trouble getting a credit card that she gave up on asking for anything else from a bank.
"For a bank to give you a loan, you have to prove you have a house, a car, and a lot of money in the bank," she said. "But if you had those things, you wouldn't ask for a loan."
The expansion of the middle class figures among President Vicente Fox's overarching goals for Mexico, which is home to a tiny elite and about 40 million people living on less than $2 a day. But over the last six years, one of the key ladders to middle-class comfort --...
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