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Donald Trump Makes Mexican Mask Factory Great Again
By Rafael Romo
The company, Caretas REV, has two factories in Jiutepec, a city of nearly 200,000 in the central Mexican state of Morelos.
Trump's fame in the United States -- and infamy in Mexico -- drove demand for the unflattering Trump mask, which picked up last fall when it became clear that the Republican presidential candidate was going to be a seri- ous contender.
Ricardo Esponda, a third-generation co- owner of the mask com- pany and an executive in charge of innovation and design, takes us to one of the multiple shops inside the factory, a warehouse where mostly female workers put the finishing touches on the masks before they're shipped out.
He points toward one worker who's neatly plac-
ing strands of artificial hair onto a latex mask.
"We weren't making this mask with hair at first," Esponda said, "but some of our customers asked for it. It's got to have hair."
The one with hair is the deluxe model, and sells for $23 in the United States. The standard all-
latex version is $19.95. Caretas REV has since produced tens of thou- sands of Donald Trump masks.
The company also sells Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama masks. Past collections have included historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, the way he looks on the $100 bill.
Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who became one of Mexico's favorite villains after being accused, but never con- victed, of leading a deeply corrupt adminis- tration in the early 90s, is the all-time top seller.
Esponda says there's currently only one mask beating Donald Trump's in sales: That of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, who was captured in January, nearly six months after his spectacular escape from a maximum-security prison last July.
"We could not meet the demand," Esponda said. "The mask totally sold out right away."
There's still a chance for Trump to compete with El Chapo, Esponda says, but only if he can win the Republican Party's nomi- nation.
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Americans Can Now Pay Their Taxes at 7-Eleven
Daniel White
Americans now have the option of paying their taxes in cash at 7- Eleven convenience stores, according to an Internal Revenue Service announcement.
“Taxpayers have many options to pay their tax bills by direct debit, a check or a credit card, but this provides a new way for people who can only pay their taxes in
cash without having to travel to an IRS Taxpayer Assistance
Center,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said
Wednesday in a state- ment.
The cash payment option is designed to make it more con- venient for tax payers as the April 18th filing deadline
approaches. A partner- ship between the IRS
and electronic payment providers Official Payments and PayNearMe allows tax- payers to make pay- ments at more than 7,000 7-Eleven stores in 34 participating states.
The IRS warns that it could take five to seven days to process, so those wishing to use the cash payment option should start well before the deadline.
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