San Antonio. Texas third largest city with a 1982 population of 768.000 people. was one of only four Federal Reserve banks in the country to have a billion dollar surplus. The Federal Reserve bank in El Paso. a prime border crossing community and Texas fourth largest city with a population of 425.259 (1982 census projection). had a negative cash flow in 1981 and 1982. However. in 1984. when the drug traffic started rolling in a big way. the bank showed a whopping $600 million surplus. Also suspicious is the situation in the lower Rio Grande Valley. one of the poorest sections of the country.
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