Mexico Mexico's billionaire business tycoon Carlos Slim. The government of the state of Yucatán is also funding the construction of a high speed line connecting the cities of Cozumel to Mérida and Chichen Itza and Cancún. Mexico has 233 airports with paved runways; of these, 35 carry 97% of the passenger traffic. The Mexico City International Airport remains the busiest in Latin America and the 36th busiest in the world transporting 45 million passengers a year. Among the achievements is a significant increase in access to piped water supply in urban areas (88% to 93%) as well as in rural areas
The Japanese in Latin America or "colonias". The chapter also includes information on return migration. The eighth chapter discusses second and third generation Japanese, called "nikkei-jin", in Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. It also discusses those who went to Japan for economic reasons. Chapter 9 discusses the present-day Japanese communities in Latin America. Tsuda stated that the chapter on contemporary Japanese communities in Latin America "is mainly filled with factual and census survey data." In the final chapter, over half of the pages discuss Japanese Peruvians. Lesser stated that the book has "quality" in "providing a strong sense of the diversity of the Japanese and Nikkei