In parched country of northern Mexico's Chihuahua, a prairie wasteland fit for nothing but coyotes, ocelots, wolves and white-faced cattle, thrives a large oasis of green fields, spotless barns and blue-trimmed, gabled cottages. This is the colony of a stolid blond race, strangely contrasting with its dark neighbors—the home of the Mexican Mennonites.
Peaceful, opposed to change and fiercely dedicated to hard work and to their fundamentalist religion, the Mennonites went to Mexico for the same reasons that they soon may choose to leave it: the land hunger of a burgeoning population, and...
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