Editor's note: This is the second article in a 10-part series. Part three will publish Sunday, May 26. MEXICO — Sitting on the southeast side of Mexico, the A.P. Green brick factory looms like a ghost. Cracked and peeling white paint covers the outside of the plant's slender office buildings. Farther removed from Business 54 — Green Boulevard — weeds sprout from the five industrial kilns, looking more like earthen mounds than brick-domed furnaces. In other parts of the factory, signs reading "high density casting" and "CAUTION SAFETY GLASSES WITH SIDE SHIELDS MUST BE WORN IN THIS AREA" make it appear as though humans inhabited this barren world just days ago...
