1.   And Mexican bankers have asked the government to allow them to offer dollar checking accounts, which now are forbidden.

2.   A fugitive Mexican banker declared in full-page ads in several Mexico City papers that he was retaining control of his businesses, including Del Monte Fresh Produce of Florida.

3.   A fugitive Mexican banker who has eluded an international manhunt for almost two months resurfaced on Thursday, but only in several Mexican newspapers.

4.   A Mexican banker is believed to have fled the country after a warrant for his arrest was issued.

5.   Customs also used elaborate ruses to lure Mexican bankers suspected of money-laundering out of Mexico so they could be arrested in the United States.

6.   Even Mexican bankers acknowledge that the damage to the banking industry has been so great that there may be few alternatives but to allow foreigners into the country.

7.   He said the Mexican bankers were all informed by the undercover agents that the money came from drug transactions in meetings that were secretly recorded on videotape.

8.   In a bid to recover their investments as quickly as possible, many Mexican bankers rapidly expanded their lending, often without performing adequate credit checks on would-be borrowers.

9.   Just how much competition the new banks represent worries Mexican bankers.

10.   That was a rare public statement by a Mexican banker acknowledging any sense of crisis.