Word: aftosa
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...That is the legacy of the Revolution. But its hopes are still far from fulfillment. Land reform is 30 years old-but Mexico does not yet raise enough food to feed itself. War-born industries are wobbly. Unemployment is growing. Furthermore, in recent months, nature has been anti-Mexican. Aftosa, the destructive foot-&-mouth disease, has crippled the basic cattle industry. A locust plague has stripped the Tehuantepec Isthmus. There has been widespread drought. There have also been torrential rains that have blocked highways and washed seed from the ground...
...None of our problems," he warned, "can compare in gravity with the spread of aftosa among the cattle." Last fortnight, the joint U.S.-Mexican commission directing the anti-aftosa campaign reported that it would last from one to five years, depending on the cooperation of the Mexican people. But sullen unrest against the slaughter of diseased cattle is spreading among farmers, and cooperation may be hard...
...celebrated Missouri mule, isolationist by temperament, has been having some rude shocks, is due for more. Mules sent to Mexico as replacements for oxen killed in the campaign against aftosa (foot-&-mouth disease) have been causing trouble because they were too pampered...
...shown its real stuff in the way it met its crisis. Soon after infection was discovered last year, and after the U.S. had slammed the door on Mexican cattle imports, the Government went decisively to war (TIME, March 3). President Miguel Aleman named himself head of the Anti-Aftosa Committee. Army, Navy and Agriculture departments, working with U.S. Department of Agriculture experts (the U.S. appropriated $9,000,000 to help Mexico in the fight), quarantined infected areas. Then the slaughter began, widening out into new areas as infection spread...
Profit in Panic. "Sly Pedro Gonzalez has another angle. He has heard of smart men buying healthy steers (at panic sale) for 99 pesos, inoculating them with aftosa and selling them to Government agents for 250 pesos, a goodly profit, gracias a Dios. Less enterprising men have smuggled healthy cattle from aftosa-free areas into infected areas and then stood piously by while Nature did the rest...