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LAS AMERICAS The Brotherhood of the Neighborhood PHOTOGRAPHS BY BILL KENNEDY TEXT BY BARBARA BELEJACK omewhere among the millions upon millions of lights that seem to stretch out forever as you fly into Mexico City at night is Colonia Tulpetlac. To the untrained eye, it is one of countless makeshift settlements that spring up on the outskirts of cities large and small throughout Latin America. To Austin photographer Bill Kennedy, it is a complex web of families and neighbors making their way through various stages of transition from 16 THE TEXAS OBSERVER 8/30/02