Wal-Mart tried again a few months later, and again Ms. Gómez mentioned no, saying that even with Teotihuacán’s new map, a Bodega Aurrera would nonetheless run afoul of a rarely enforced federal guideline. Mr. Frieventh, the son of a shoe-store owner, earned a government wage of lower than $30,000 in 2003. However modest his pay, he was in the midst of amassing a powerful actual property portfolio. From 2001 to 2004, property records show, he purchased up most of a metropolis block in Toluca.
When they dumped their loads, he might see fragments of pottery and different evidence of historic …