The men of the Mexico Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) are not content to sit around.

Rather the hundred or so members, all of whom have suffered injuries or diseases of the spinal cord, have done what almost every other group in Guadalajara said they themselves would do first: they bought a Clubhouse.

After three years of planning, the PVA purchased a fully accessible building with six rooms and two baths in the Ciudad Granja. The Clubhouse is situated on over one-half acre of land with rooms utilized for offices, storage space, and game area. There will also be an exceptionally large room suitable for meetings and bingo.  The group intends to have a ramped swimming pool that can be used by all.

The only chapter of PVA on foreign soil, the group began to form in 1957 when a few "rebels" came to Guadalajara to "find new auras" since they "had nobody and nowhere to go," according to George Ray, president of the chapter. ...